Beware - I know around a dozen people who have done the opposite - moved from mechanical/biomechanical/electrical/nuclear/chemical engineering to software. I do

Beware - I know around a dozen people who have done the opposite - moved from mechanical/biomechanical/electrical/nuclear/chemical engineering to software. I don't know anyone whose done the opposite, I don't think it's very common. For what I hear from these people, they unanimously say that there's many more (quantity) and better (quality) jobs in software compared to their original field. This is probably a biased sample, so take it with a grain of salt. I think you need to investigate what exactly is causing the burnout issues. It could be a whole new career isn't the thing that will fix it. I don't know you, so I can't make a judgement either way - just be very careful before spending thousands of dollars and years of your working life on school. Doing so could make your problems worse. A while ago a family member was suffering from extreme burnout at his job. That person's mother (a very naive person) strongly encouraged him to leave the field he works in entirely, whereas I could see the problem was entirely personal and changing careers wouldn't help and would likely hurt him. I encouraged him to work on some personal issues before making such a decision, he did, and almost an entire decade later he is in the same field and doing much better.