Here is a question. Do you have a good sense of how you would use your time after you quit? Obviously you would have more time for your family and hobbies, but

Here is a question. Do you have a good sense of how you would use your time after you quit? Obviously you would have more time for your family and hobbies, but beyond that, a lot of the challenge of working for yourself is in making sure you are still pursuing a plausible career path and not taking a wrong turn that will stress you out and has no reward. I recently approached this question by writing down what I know about myself and my general interests and strengths and weaknesses. I limited myself to finding the nine most important of these(an arbitrary number but small enough that I could keep all of them in my head) and reworked it over a few days until they described me well and were no longer contradicting each other. I figured out that I wanted to position myself towards something more like teaching than, e.g. "deep" R&D, sales, customer support. So now I am working on making video essays for a Youtube channel - something I hadn't considered until I really worked through what I did and did not want - and am having a great time with it. And if the channel and associated products don't work out(like a lot of YT channels, the actual channel and video content can be leveraged into a marketing funnel), it's still a pretty solid career move in terms of getting my name out there.