Rebecca, I think that if you listen to the voices of experience, like Julia or even Cookies in Charity, basically the actual creative process and joy of learning can be overwhelmed by the stress put on by deadline, dealing with clients who in the end hardly appreciate the art of what you are doing and seldom are actually willing to pay ones worth. In the FEW people I have had to deal with so far it was a lesson quickly learned.
You are a talented architect as proven by your well thought out work but practically speaking as the primary bread winner of your home cookies will not be the path to cover life's expenses. You can easily continue this form of your artistic expression, love all the great accolades, follow it where it may take you but please keep your job! It came at a great financial and personal expense! ( Unless you become partners with Julia!)
