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I feel the exact same way; I'm at that stage right before quitting my crappy job, but I just can't make that last step. Too much debt and not enough funds to take the leap and leave, plus I wouldn't know where to start looking for jobs in art; I haven't done much since I graduated two years ago art-wise, so anything I'd show would be stale and out-of-date, and anything I'd want to show would be animation, which would take forever to do. I'm making excuses, I know, but the idea of going into art as a career is both exciting and terrifying...

Thank you, Emi, for this story. I'm much older and have had some decent, if low-ranking office jobs since college and grad school droput, but I quit my last job because we were being outsourced anyway and the executives who ran the company where I worked believed in exactly the opposite of everything I did - they were for huge defense spending (probably had investments in the companies), for income inequality, against social spending, opposed and worked very hard to block President Obama's healthcare reform (and did not want any other but the "free market") while being in healthcare themselves. I just could not go along with them any more, even though there weren't jobs in that area for anything else, and I gave up at least 3-4 months high pay, and where we moved, there are no jobs either. I live just above FPL (Federal poverty) now, but agree, serving people, being part of caring for others (part of my job is connected to local food pantry, and in part of my job, I give away free clothes or sell low-cost ones), but it's so much more honorable and part of the society in which I've believed since I was a child. It would be wonderful if someone came along and validated me for this, or acknowledged my choice, but so far I have to tell myself it was the right thing. I hope you young people do make a great transformation in all of society - I'm tired of money being the only god of US society and human life being measured in money!