In addition to some of the other great comments here, I'd mention that whatever you choose to do, every career path and job has its tradeoffs that you'll have to learn to work with. I've spent most of my professional career as a front-end software engineer and started hating it a few years ago--thought I'd be happier as a plumber, electrician, or even a paralegal: I wanted to get away from screens, to do something pr…
> working in tech isn't so bad, and that a lot of what I disliked about it could be mitigated from within the profession
Would be nice if you expanded on this. Lots of people glamorize starting fresh, so it'd be refreshing to understand what you did differently.