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I relate to this, here's some stuff I've learned.
1) Defaulting your dream to the biggest thing in the field is kinda dumb. You might not actually want to be a chef, director, author, or run a business. You might be ignoring food researcher, producer, editor, or freelance. The whole reason you're interested in the field is probably because you followed your curiosity there in some regard. What most people do next is turn off their curiosity GPS and just head for the biggest landmark and try to follow "the path to become x" Chances are you'll miss your turn for the reason you actually came there.
2) It doesn't have to be one thing, frankly it probably shouldn't.
3) Projects. Start small and increase scale over time. If you look at the careers of very successful creatives, it's basically all a cascade of projects that over time lay the ground work for bigger stuff to be done. Diligence and hard work and practice are cool and recommended, but finishing shit counts, it gives you a place to contextualize all that diligence, hard work and practice into a tangible.
4) Burn out happens, there are ways to mitigate it, but it's scary as shit initially. You'll wonder why you don't love the thing you love, that maybe you had large parts of your identity based on. Relax, and let it have it's time. If someone asks, it's on the back burner at the moment. Curiosity will spring back up again and take you in a direction you didn't have the context for earlier. But still, it's scary as shit, and none moreso than the first few times when you don't have the experience to have reason to believe it's coming back.
5) Stuff you figure out yourself > advice.
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