Burnout - Where to Go, What to Do?

Real talk ya'll, I'm super tired of the whole grind life and I wanna cash in my prestige points from a blue chip development shop to rest & vest like a dirty tech bro. Where do I go? 

I'm thinking about doing some braindead senior lender or corporate real estate for some F500 doing retail or office spaces that pays me 250-300k for the rest of my life and I work less than 40 hours a week. Hell, i'll even underwrite residential mortgages at some goofy local bank to do so.

Give me some recs while I get ruined by the death spiral of endless workouts and dying deals. 

Signed, 

A sad sack associate/DM at some developer somewhere

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