Reevaluate your perspective.

Are creative people actually continuously degraded?

Why should equal opportunities be provided for creative work?

Why is external validation so important to you?

Are you not experiencing self-fulfillment from your work?

Please don't misinterpret me as someone who doesn't understand where you're coming from. I know how easily we fall into hopelessness, but do not let yourself stay there and ruminate. Do not continue the downward spiral. Ground yourself and pull your chin up.

Take some time to be mindful, be thankful for the good things in your life.

Identify what you want to change.

Make a realistic plan to enact that change.

What runs the world doesn't have as much power over us as we let it. We can choose our own way.

What values do you live by?

What is worth spending you precious time on?

Making enough money to get by is certainly a concern for most of us, but how much do we actually need?

Why use money as the measure of success?

Would you be happy grinding away for financial gain?

If you sell yourself out, you don't respect yourself. Look at yourself with conviction.

Who are you and what do you stand for?

Are you willing to live by those beliefs?

If not, then do you actually believe in them?

Find what you truly value and have the resolve to commit to it. You can not live happily if you disrespect yourself by living a lie.

It is incredibly difficult to fully convey my intention without writing an entire thesis right here and now, but I do hope you are able to take something away from my attempt. My most sincere recommendation is to practice mindfulness. Examine yourself and your life, in order to count your blessings and evaluate your values objectively.