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Hey Andreas,
I think escpecially in audio, there is so much to explore and often things can be done in so many different ways.
It is not an office job where you might get by with a certain amount of skills and knowledge and actually have no need or possibility to grow because after all you're facing the same problems with minimal variations everyday.
In audio, I believe one's knowledge grows with time and experience naturally and out of necessity. Like sports, maybe bodybuilding, your ears are the muscles that grow bigger everytime you use them.
Didn't you just shortly post that drum part where Paul Frindle and others helped out and offered some tips and tricks how to achieve the desired result? You were facing a particular problem that you didn't have to deal with before so you asked for ideas and got many responses. So next time a similar situation arises, you'll be prepared better and can try to solve it with the new approaches you learned. And this goes on and on, you gain more knowledge and thus your mixes will get better and better.
Why would you think of your six years doing audio as being wasted?
Like Ricardo said, if you love it keep on doing it!
Doesn't it make you happy if your clients are satisfied?
Ben F said some good things too!
Unless you're in financial trouble and/or lost all the love for what you are doing, I wouldn't think of selling your equipment.
By the way, I am not a mastering engineer, just someone that is touched by your post that gives the impression you're being sadly demotivated at the moment for no good reason as I hope I illustrated with the things I said.
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