I 25F hate my job and current career path, but every other career I can think of sounds even worse, so I just stay where I am. The job pays me well, so I'm grateful for that, but I feel like my life outside of work is pretty boring. I'm usually too mentally exhausted in the evenings to do anything other than lay on the couch with my cat and watch TV. I've been battling anxiety and depression for the past 5 years; therapy has helped a lot, but I still have work to do and this job is hard on me. The fatigue after the work day is really fucking tough to beat, but I'm trying to plan more things in the evenings. I can typically have fun on Saturdays / Sundays though.
So I get that I should just suck it up like everyone else, but it's really hard to intensely hate what I spend 9 hours of the day doing. Other people are so good at having a shitty job and just getting through it and making the most of things, but I'm just not strong-willed and want to hide from it all. I want to leave my job and get to experience waking up with no responsibilities, at least for some time. I feel so under pressure all the time and I want to feel the relief of getting rid of all of it, so I fantasize every day about quitting with nothing else lined up. I do have an emergency fund, so I think to myself quit now, plan later.
Can someone remind me that this is a bad idea? I know I need to wait until I have something else in place – otherwise it will be 10x harder for me to transition back into work once I'm unemployed. I just hate working altogether and 4-6 months of unemployment isn't going to make me magically discover a job that doesn't make me miserable. I know this is all the rational way of thinking but can someone just validate my thoughts to make sure I don't quit lmao please tell me about your experience with being unemployed