<human>: I'm 27 and feeling a bit lost. Feeling a bit of analysis paralysis which I fear might keep me stuck for years (thinking about it, it already has)

I graduated from graphic design in 2011, and after a brief stint in a call centre found myself working as an in-house designer for a University department. My portfolio after my degree wasn't strong, but as the only creative professional in the building I didn't have to prove myself all that much.

Fast forward 4 years and now I'm just churning out sup-par work to clear a permanent backlog. I've lost all inspiration, I'm not interested in the job and there are no options to progress where I am. In fact, I feel like in the time I've been there I've actually lost the skills I had when I graduated. I need to move on, which means I need to retrain, but I just can't decide what I want to focus on, or how I go about it.

Music is my big passion, and I will always [make music] but I accept that it's unlikely that will make me a living.

So besides that, I'm looking at focusing on something inside my 'jack of all trades' skill set I'm using now. I like animation but that's a difficult career to get into. I like programming but I don't know the first thing about it and would be training for years. I have ideas for projects but they require massive learning curves.

I guess my question is (the

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<bot>: ), how does one motivate themselves to get out of a dead end career? How do you decide what you want to focus on? Has anyone found themselves totally unsure of what to do and found a way to start moving again?