A person close to me is seriously considering quitting their $200,000+/yr job and becoming a barista. Their current job requires them to make morally ambiguous decisions, and they're overwhelmed by the sheer volume of BS work (not real work) that is required.
Is this, however, jumping from the frying pan into the fire? What is a barista's job like? They're around 40 years old and own their house.
Any advice from those who know what being a barista entails would be greatly appreciated! This person is self-consciously aware that they might have a somewhat overly idealistic impression of what a barista does.
I'm not entirely convinced that a barista's job would be an improvement in terms of stress. I worked as a store manager for a retail chain for 1.5 years, and it was horrible. But that was 20 years ago.
We're currently in Toronto, Canada.