Comment by mezzanoon

The hardest thing is understanding why you want to make this change. What are you looking to get out of it? What currently in your life is pushing you towards this? What do you really want to do? These may seem like trivial questions, but admittedly I personally really struggled with them, after coming to a conclusion that I needed to switch career paths. Someone here mentioned Ikigai, and the Surgeon General recently touched on something similar in their "Parting Prescription". (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/my-parting-prescript...)

You're probably looking to change paths because you know you don't feel satisfied, and their advice is to look for what fulfills your relationships, what allows you to perform service to the community (big or small), and what gives you purpose. Sitting down and asking myself, how well do you meet those needs now, and how can you better meet them, was what solidified my effort to truly shift from tech into fire fighting.