[pmoriarty]

If you are really burnt out and want to leave tech, I urge you to do it sooner than later. If you lack qualifications in whatever you want to do, you can still get them. Don't wait, follow your dream. Even if you fail, you'll have less regrets trying than going back to doing work you can't stand anymore.

I've burnt out multiple times and gone back in to tech only to get burnt out again and again, and have dragged my feet in switching careers, and have missed valuable years and decades that I could have been moving towards work I would have found more fulfilling, and now I'm finally trying that career change, but I wish I hadn't wasted all that time working in tech jobs I've lost absolutely all interest in and started to hate decades and decades ago.