So I do the drudge work. I know I can get it done. It some ways it makes me feel better because I don't have to worry about getting over the hump.
One of my options is simply increasing the amount of money I get paid for doing something I know I can do. Then do my own thing on my own time. I call it drudge work, but in reality its something that requires a set of specialized knowledge or special education, but has to to be repeated over and over again (hence the drudge part).
Maybe I need to come up with ideas of thing I can learn that people will pay me very well for because they need to be done over and over again and nobody likes doing them, but are hard enough to require specialized knowledge.
Basically every time I've grown as a person has been because I took the risk of letting people down, and then felt I couldn't let them down and so completed the task. If you never put yourself in that position, how're you going to grow?
You'd be surprised how many people are willing to take that risk, because oftentimes it does pan out, and they get a pretty substantial return on their investment.
An even bigger question is if it worked for you. Goes getting over the hump turn the job into something fulfilling and enjoyable, or does it just make it easier to get over the next hump.
I was like this all through school and college. I hated writing. I loved learning. I absorbed all these textbooks, aced the tests, rarely finished a project (or my homework), and hated writing.
But sometime in college, I'd made a commitment to redo the backend of a volunteer website I cared about very much. And I felt like I'd be letting all my friends down if I just gave up on it.
That first completed project was torture. I never wanted to see the code I'd written again, and wanted nothing to do with the website after I'd worked out some of the worst bugs. But the second completed project (a Netbeans plugin for my job) was easier, and third (Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours) was easier still. The 4th got harder again, and I needed help to finish it, but then I did a bunch of other websites that were fairly easy.
The part of the brain that "gets things done" seems to be different from the part that's "smart". (I've heard the former called "executive function", and it often doesn't develop until your 20s.) And it's like a muscle - it gets stronger by exercising it. I've found it also gets tired like a muscle - I usually work in bursts of 1-2 weeks, and then I need a week or two where I have a light workload and am basically just learning new things. But a whole bunch of these cycles, over several years, can add up to a decent number of accomplishments.
The real hump is that first completed project. And I don't really know a way around that other than to keep coming back to it and refuse to give up.