Honestly, just go do a course and get a bus licence, it shouldn't be too much of an investment. Then do that for a while, come back to IT when (or if) you feel like it.

I don't think that's laughable. Work that follows you home can be so mentally/emotionally all-consuming and I think it's pretty normal to fantasise about manual jobs with short, well-defined hours (and easy to forget they sometimes follow you home too, in the form of aching back muscles etc).

Did you get into engineeting because you were passionate about some aspect of it? @Axisential@lemmy.nz is right about some careers not feeling like work most of the time if you really enjoy them.