[kodachrome64]

Not OP, but another manufacturing engineer. Manufacturing has been on a slow decline for decades due to outsourcing and automation. The need to offer a competitive wage and working conditions is not what it is in tech, and company culture can get pretty cutthroat depending on the industry you're working in. You could find a job elsewhere, but it likely won't be much different. In fact, a rotation for being on-call would be an improvement for me, as I've never worked anywhere where I'm not on-call all the time. People even try to call me when they know I'm on vacation, which is one of many reasons I keep a personal phone that they don't know the number for.

I make better money than most people I know around my age, but it's nowhere near tech money and it's not enough for the bullshit. Unfortunately, it is good enough that pivoting into another field and taking a pay cut would be painful.