I didn't make anything like as much & was much earlier in my career but: I was utterly msierable in consulting in London, at what I thought was a baller salary but actually by US/global standards wasn't really. People told me I had to stick it out for minimum 2-3 years. I quit after 8 months and have never, ever regretted that decision. Two career changes later and I still don't make as much as you, but I could feasibly retire (with restraint or some smart investing) or semi-retire by my 40th birthday. 'Retiring' is way cheaper than people think, because they always assume that they would spend as much as they currently do, and that they would never make money again, and that they would pay the same income taxes. I would talk it over with your partner, and so long as he's happy to have you in a search phase for a while, start spending a lot of time on working out things you could conceivably be good at & enjoy, and just neglect your job while you do it (within ethical bounds/don't cause a 2008). You might need to stay on good terms with 2-3 people for references, but honestly the rest of them will only matter to the degree that you find them to be authentically valuable/interesting/good humans.