How much do you believe in your own work?

I believe I have quite a bit of talent in what I do for a living. I work very hard at it (even though I feel I can work more) and I am always trying to improve on and have my work evolve. I opened this DA site to give myself the opportunity to show off and have people talk to me about my non-paying work. This is under my alias and why I don't have many shots with people in it. I love that this site gives me the opportunity to show this work off to such a vast range of people with so many different styles. I love creating this work and my hopes of making a profitable career out of it is coming closer every day. I am the type of artist who needs to here that his work his good but I also like to here why it's not good too (or how it can be improved). All people with their thoughts, ideas, critiques are more than welcome. Also, I'm a teacher and if you want me to look at your stuff and critique it, I'd be happy to. I promise I'm not jerk about my critique.

*for my paying work I was told I have to start writing blogs so I figured doing it anonymously and trying it this way would be a good way to start. I'm very good at pushing a button but so much at pushing many in a row to create coherent sentences from my thoughts.