[kelnos]

Agreed.

When I was earlier in my career and was fed up at my then-current job, an older, wiser coworker of mine took me aside and advised me to leave for the right reasons. Be sure that I was running toward something new that excited me, and not just running away from something that made me unhappy. He wanted to make sure I wasn't going to just accept whatever first job came my way, or quit without any plan for the future at all.

The antidote to unsustainably stressful work is only quitting if you've thoroughly looked at what quitting really means and have decided that will truly make you happy.

Quitting might be an intentionally-short-term fix with a plan to find a better job with a healthier work/life balance. Quitting and retiring could be a long-term fix, too, but it's such a huge lifestyle change that it shouldn't be seen as simply a solution to the problem.