First question: Is your depression a result of your career choice or do you have a clinical depression? The solution to your problem will have different answers according to your answer to this question. A person with clinical depression will be depressed if he wakes up in a barrel of money surrounded by naked movie starlets. A person who simply hates his job and is in otherwise good mental health will get relief just from beginning to search for an alternate career path without first giving up his source of revenue. One issue calls for professional intervention. The other calls for a decision to pursue an alternate path while holding on to the old one until a decision is made and carried out. You also may need a dose of reality. The work world isn't fun. If work were fun, you would have to pay for a ticket as you entered. Work is work. If you are good at what you do, you will have more satisfaction at the end of your career but if you can say that it was fun, you ain't really working. Also, your expectations of turning a new direction without a possible loss of revenue - at least in the beginning - may be unrealistic. Or maybe not. I changed careers and my income went up ten fold the first year. No, I didn't go from digging ditches to contract murderer for the Mafia! I went from working for a non-profit in the mental health industry to owning a big-ticket retail store. After five years of rolling in money, I decided to return to my original career because it was where my satisfaction lay. I didn't throw away the money. I invested it so my return to a lower paying career was accompanied by a safety net most people in my profession don't have. Now I am retired and about as happy as a person can be because I made my own contentment through hard work, sacrifice and being in the right place at the right time to take advantage of trends. But as Branch Rickey said, "Luck is the residue of design." Best of luck to you but answer my opening question - for yourself, not for me - before you move further with your plans.