[nicholas73]

I quit my job a couple years out of school, and it didn't really change anything for me. The next jobs were no more satisfying and I didn't make great use of the downtime. One source of anxiety was traded for another. My career was derailed further, and major life milestones didn't happen for lack of money.

Yet perhaps it was unavoidable that one must go through self -discovery. Maybe you can do it more efficiently that I did.

One perspective I gained was that you aren't short in time to change your life even in your job. You lose even more time later, as work and family become more demanding. If I knew what I know now I could have just kept my job and worked on something on the side. I just didn't know what to work on back then.

I also didn't spend on myself. It would have been cheaper in the end to do so, in retrospect.

Anyway, you don't want to be jobless during a potential downturn. At least see it through the virus period.