Thank you Jess for sharing your experience here with us! I have spent a lot of hours doing things I did not enjoy for money and when I had the courage to take a leap of faith into doing what I loved regardless of the money, ironically life has now thrown more money at me than I know what to do with. When I took this leap of faith I had $70,000 of credit card debt and my family had over $250,000 of student loans. I took two more personal loans for $50,000 more before my credit totally was shot and I said this

"I am going to work like I will go out of business. I will give everything I have for the free or the lowest price. I will do what I love every day. If my business fails, at least I will have given everything I could and feel good about that. I refuse to do anything that my heart is not in and that makes me feel ashamed."

3 years later all the credit cards are paid off, all the personal loans are paid off, and the student loan debt is down significantly with no payments missed. Almost all of my investments are in this Steemit account which now somehow is worth almost $100,000.

The miracle happened when I started respecting myself and starting saying no to anything that did not make me feel great about participating in. All the times I said yes before and paid the price gave me the courage to make the switch.

I hope sharing my experience with you here is helpful because I have no idea what is right for you.