This all sounds very vague and soft. You either have a clear vision for what you want to do, and how to pay the bills and an exit plan or no amount of wishful t

This all sounds very vague and soft. You either have a clear vision for what you want to do, and how to pay the bills and an exit plan or no amount of wishful thinking will remotely recreate your income. Escaping, really escaping requires learning survival skills such as how to sell, design activations and projects that customers can be sold on, paying your own money to hire designers, developers, etc. I wished to escape for years. Then I stopped wishing and started trying to claw my way out. And failed. For years. Then I started building a side project and learned how to sell, hire, present, project manage. I had to do all that by working twice as hard or more. I recommend closely studying Alan Weiss for the mindset you need to have. And now I’m almost out but not quite. The gap in skills is tremendous. You simply cannot learn the key skills you need while working at these companies. Their employement agreements specifically prevent you from developing them. I recommend organizing something small that forces or requires you to sell, hire a designer, programmer. The goal is not to quit, just a sandbox. Something outside of work, something fun, something you can make a little money on. Do a little three month project that actually requires you to get money from customers. You will learn more in three months that can enable you to escape than you will learn staying at faaang another five years. I recently did such a small project, and in three months I have learned almost everything I need to know to run my own business. I did it on the side in a low key way, but it taught me survival skills. Now I’m actively planning my exit.