Has anyone tried consulting as a DevOps or SRE? The grind and the firefighting is forever and endless, and the new services you have to learn, the dev and prod

Has anyone tried consulting as a DevOps or SRE? The grind and the firefighting is forever and endless, and the new services you have to learn, the dev and product demands that are poorly planned, make one want to quit, and consult on specific projects. CI CD pipelines, and general purpose SRE project consulting. I'm thinking about quitting in a high cost of living place and living off of savings will I search for gigs and build a network. Is that absurd?