I'm not sure it's better in any other career
Speaking as someone who has just left a career as an IT Manager in order to pursue pilot training I am sorry to hear that many of you are not as happy as you once were.
Unfortunately I fear that the 'quality of life' experienced in most walks of life is not getting any better and in my own field I have seen my salary stagnate as the IT boom collapsed. Further to that office workers are now expected to do a lot more work than they did 5-10 years ago, mostly by being 'nose to the grindstone' for the whole day rather than having a few minutes to spare for chat or a coffee. The working day has got longer and the chances of redundancy greater, plus many of the little perks that made office life bearable - overseas conferences or training to learn new stuff are under serious threat. SO it becomes a relentless grind of long hours spent in front of a PC revising budget and project plans to keep the bean counters happy!
The trouble with capitalism is that its ultimate aim is for one employee to be monitoring the automated systems of the biggest company in the world. This affects all of us adversely whatever your profession.
Trouble is, I'm not sure there's any alternative - but there's no doubt that consumer demand for everything at the cheapest price, and the city's insistence on increased efficiency accelerates the trend.
Desk-pilot