The grass on the other side of the fence is greener mostly because most of the contributors to this thread are painting it that way.
Thirty years ago I was in a big engineering company and like all UK industry it treated any one who got their hands dirty like S**t.
Going flying was much better in terms of the way I was regarded and the pay was not bad ...... Better than engineering !
There is no doubt that you can make better money than flying but the stresses are different, commuting on the tube, hours stuck in traffic, having your prices undercut by cheap immigrant labour, the VAT man Etc Etc..................
When I come home none of this stuff is nagging at the back of my mind.......I just shut the hangar doors.
Pull the Handel and you could get what you want but my guess is that you are just going to exchange one type of stress for another.