I worked in an office for a decade, pretty much my entire 20's. Took ~20% pay cut at the end of 2020 to work outdoors in my pretty much dream job. We actually were doing the Slap Zoom meetups at that time and all you homies getting on there were supportive and making me feel good which I still remember. I get to be outdoors all day, talk to a lot of interesting people, teach kids about nature, and get to work with my hands, and recently I've been one half of our two man in-house video production team we are getting going and have gotten a chance to travel around socal for a day shooting videos, getting paid to hangout on the beach in HB. I love teaching people, I always wanted to learn about tools and now have a small but solid collection of hand/power tools and can work on a lot of stuff at home or for fun, and I have been doing video editing for fun half my life. I originally wanted to do video production when I was younger but never wanted to edit a tv show or something, so it's been a dream job within a dream job. On top of that I've had a lot of really exciting moments like search and rescues.
I would be making significantly more at my office job if I was still there but I hated it for all that time and would never ever go back. If I ever transition to an office role in my current job I would still be in an outdoor setting so that is a cool option in the future. I have a great team of people I work with and the two other guys that share the same role as me are really good people and the only real friends I've had outside a job since I was like 18. It really feels like me and some buddies all got a job together, no ego, no slacking, no competing.
All that is to say money isn't everything if you hate your job. I'm officially middle aged in about a week and it took me almost as long to figure this shit out even though I knew it in the back of my head all these years. Work takes up the majority of our time and my life satisfaction has improved so much from changing jobs that no amount of money could really make a difference unless it was so little I couldn't survive.