I quit my research career for exactly this; I was close to burnout. I left the academic sector because I realised it's internationally toxic; there's no solidar

I quit my research career for exactly this; I was close to burnout. I left the academic sector because I realised it's internationally toxic; there's no solidarity among academics. They'll can your grant application, they'll trash your paper during peer review, for absolutely zero personal gain. Every aspect of research work is awful: ridiculously little funding, a parasitic publishing system outsourcing all of its labor to us (unpaid), overloaded teaching, universities' ballooning middle management inventing new hoops every week, endless unpaid labor in the name of 'academic service', low salary, endless pressure. Burn it all down.