I Quit a Six-Figure Job to Become a Social Worker

Choose happiness and fulfillment over crippling stress and moral compromise

Photo by Sahand Hoseini on Unsplash

I got an early jump on the pandemic. My existential crisis started a few months before. Ever since I’ve been whipping a U-turn on my life.

Last summer, I relapsed on alcohol when I crumbled beneath the combined pressure of my…