The TF2 Wiki article on item drops, which I found after a couple seconds' searching, says:
> Instead of rolling randomly at intervals to see if you got an item drop, now the system rolls to determine when your next item drop will occur. With this change, players are guaranteed to find items at fairly regular intervals. This was made because many players had unlucky streaks, where they didn't find any items for weeks. That isn't possible anymore. The drop rate was also increased, but now players have a limited playtime per week when they can receive drops. Playing beyond that amount won't find any more items, but some of the unused time will rollover to the following week; speaking of that, the item cap resets at Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m. pacific standard time(1:00 p.m. GMT)(this test was experimented and needs more input). The current DAILY drop limit is unknown, although it has been speculated among players that the total drop limit PER WEEK is between 8 and 10. (This has not been confirmed by Valve). Also another thing about the current item drop system is that sometimes players will have 'lucky' streaks, whereby they will receive several item finds at once (even up to 6). Unfortunately, this will ultimately mean a reduction in item drops for the remaining gaming time allocated for such item drops.
Answer: Drops randomly appear 8-10 times per week.
Protip: Check your capslock.
Life is a game of balance before anything else. Should you live your life to the fullest and do what you love? Sure. Should your profession allow you to make a living? True as well. So how can you go about this situation?
First things first: what you love doing, is not necessarily what you're good at, and being bad at something you love doing will ruin it for you. So first step: make sure your good at what you want to do, and if you're not, make sure you take the time to plan on how to grow and become better at it.
Also, look for jobs/environments that will allow you to grow if you're at the start of your career. A couple of years of meaningful experience in your field is much more valuable than a couple of years with a slightly higher salary spent doing nothing or not growing.
It's a tricky situation, but do one step at a time, make sure you invest time and do a bit of research before leaving your job, talk to people doing what you'd like to do so that you can get a better understanding of their path and experience, and if you can, maybe start some side projects while you're still working to try and get some experience yourself.
Hope this helps, this is not all mine, most of the ideas come from this book, it's a great read! And it helped me quite a lot on thinking about work! https://www.amazon.it/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/0349415862