My experience on the "over-qualified" bit has been the opposite. More senior roles are more flexible about hours, get more leeway to define their job descriptio

My experience on the "over-qualified" bit has been the opposite. More senior roles are more flexible about hours, get more leeway to define their job description, choose sane projects, and aren't treated as badly by middle managers and over-zealous PMs. Also, more money also reduces stress in other areas. It's fairly easy to spend money to reduce stress in your life, if you have it; on the contrary, money being tight is a major source of stress for most people, even if they don't realize it. If someone find their current job too stressful, it's probably the company and the specific people you work with, not the level of the technical work. If so, finding a similar or slightly higher level job at another company with a better culture is probably the right move. (If I'm wrong and it really is the technical side of things that are stressing you out, then obviously this doesn't apply!)