As long as you can afford the results that may come with changing careers, then you can change careers. If you can't afford it, then you'd better be an honest chef. Honestly, other professions are not as easy as you think, even the elite people in the society, although they do earn more money, but the pressure is also very high.

There are only 2 results of changing your profession, either you don't mix as well as you do now, or you develop better than you do now.

If you don't change your career, you can have a job that is both stable and familiar, and although it's the same thing every day, at least you don't have to worry about it as much.

With a career change you would need to face the problem of not being able to find the right job. The hard ones you probably won't want to do, and the ones you do want to do you won't. So either you go into jobs that don't require skills but are very hard and not necessarily rewarding, or you learn skills but don't always get them.

We see the glamorous side of other industries, but we don't realize how stressful they are behind the scenes.

Taking programming as an example, everyone thinks it's an easy, high-paying job where you write code every day. But with all the complexity of the code, and all the problems that can arise at any time, the people who actually do programming know how hard it is.

I used to have a job that involved software, so the company had developers, and the software was really hard to use, and from time to time there were problems, and then the developers had to change it, and work overtime on weekends if there were problems. Although they are very hard, but I think it is not very useful, because the technology is not good. So programming is actually a lot of pressure.

It can only be said that work is hard, no matter which industry. But if you're just a little bored of being a cook and want to try a new industry, and you can accept that the future development is not as good as now, I think you can change your career.