Part of any job is spent looking at other jobs online. Everyone knows that. And it's fine when you're an assistant. It's soothing.
But one day you'll realize that the job descriptions you're mindlessly scanning are actually in your field. Instead of the whole search inspiring strange fantasies in which you're suddenly working as a video game programmer, you'll find yourself just picturing doing your job somewhere else. For a moment this will depress you, but then you'll think Maybe I should actually apply to one of these.
It's a bold idea, and you'll be worried that the new job wouldn't be any better than your current one. Maybe it would actually be worse? You'll check the salary range and realize that the logic of market valuation dictates that the job would have to be worse to in order to merit higher pay. And if you're currently not having children because your wife insists you'd need more money for their demands then any additional income you accrue would be earmarked for a diapers savings account or lamaze classes or a bigger apartment or cribs - and how does that incentivize you to move to a new, worse, job? So some tiny creature can sit in an overpriced chair while barking demands at me in its tiny creature language? It's like Communism! The more I make the more I will have taken away!
And that is why I am still at this shitty job. It will happen to you too.