People who enter creative careers often find that the creativity only lasts so long before the job becomes "just a job". It doesn’t matter how much you like to paint or sculpt - you can’t do it day in and day out for money and not eventually experience some sort of stagnation in your work. When this happens, you might want to think about going back to school - not because you need the degree but because the experience of learning something new can be the jumpstart that you need to revitalize your creative self. This is particularly true if you head into a new creative field that compliments what you are already doing.

A writer, for example, may opt to look into a culinary arts program in CA such as the one that is available through the Culinary Academy of California. The experience of learning about cooking and about how to be creative with cooking while still making a career out of the art can be just what the writer needs to be inspired in her own work. She may get fresh ideas about how to market the writing that she loves to produce so that she can do her craft in a refreshed way. Or she might decide that she wants to be a professional chef! Either way, she takes the jolt of change and uses it to her professional and creative advantage.