It’s sad on a creative level but from a career perspective, many of my friends (from when I worked in film) are earning multiples of what they earned previously

It’s sad on a creative level but from a career perspective, many of my friends (from when I worked in film) are earning multiples of what they earned previously, and are doing less work at the same time. So it’s easy to just give in and do the lowered task at hand rather than fight for the high end work they were hired to do.