i did this once and it literally almost killed me from the added stress of the lower-level job. i think it just so happened that the 'easy' job i took was insan

i did this once and it literally almost killed me from the added stress of the lower-level job. i think it just so happened that the 'easy' job i took was insane stressful, but my general experience is that lower-level grunt jobs have always been more stressful to me in the 'bad' ways, tho i didn't realize it at the time i took the lower-level job. good stress / good for you ('having' to make decisions, being responsible for things, etc.) vs. bad stress / bad for you (getting told what to do, etc.). getting back to being a manager-type again was a thing - i guess it added a small hurdle - but was not a big deal on the whole. one data point.