I'm no good at practicalities, and I don't think any other approach than trying to think a bit more in that way would work anyway.

I hate my own job, and begrudge every second of time I spend at it when I could be doing five hundred and seventy-four other things, some necessary, some creative, some just pleasant. I'd like to try to recover the frame of mind I used to have, when I saw myself as giving my time and my energy to help people, and being given in return the means to live--when I wasn't counting the seconds and the pennies and trying to make them balance and feeling bad because to me they don't.

Does that answer your question?