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I signed up for my classes, and I've been having an existential crisis ever since. I really just wanted to do art, but I never so much as picked up a pencil or learned so much as one song because I was worried it would never make money. I'm in my mid-twenties finishing a degree I abandoned in my early 20s and I will be surrounded by only early 20s folks. I missed out on youth big time.
I'm not going to like what I'm doing, but the only alternative is rotting away in my parents basement while I do minimum wage jobs waiting for inspiration to strike me even though it likely never will. It feels like I am settling for a lesser devil rather than finding happiness.
It sucks so much how capitalism sets us up with this complex where we're afraid to pursue our passions because they aren't profitable enough. Like the hustle culture bullshit where we are expected to judge even our hobbies by their potential for making money.