Life is full of shitty decisions.
If you have 6 months of a fantastic, normal, healthy life, and 6 months of a shitty, sick, incapacitated life every year, and you had the option to no longer continue your life, what would you do?
If it was your beloved pet in the same situation, then what? Do you continue their existence knowing that they're suffering now, but that in a few months, everything will get better and be fine for a few months, but that you'll eventually have to go through it again?
Do you drop out of college and get a full time job because you're moving farther away from school, and you're not sure what you're going to do with your degree? It saves you, actually, it makes you more money to not go to school, so you can worry less about money and how your bills get paid every month. But, the job you take could be a job you hate, and one that you'll be stuck in for years.
If you have 6 months of a fantastic, normal, healthy life, and 6 months of a shitty, sick, incapacitated life every year, and you had the option to no longer continue your life, what would you do?
If it was your beloved pet in the same situation, then what? Do you continue their existence knowing that they're suffering now, but that in a few months, everything will get better and be fine for a few months, but that you'll eventually have to go through it again?
Do you drop out of college and get a full time job because you're moving farther away from school, and you're not sure what you're going to do with your degree? It saves you, actually, it makes you more money to not go to school, so you can worry less about money and how your bills get paid every month. But, the job you take could be a job you hate, and one that you'll be stuck in for years.
To put it simply, "this goes with being a good daddy. It's the worst part, but it's the part that defines us as parents, I think". Someone I love told me that a few months ago...
I would go through those miserable days looking forward to the half year of good life. But then people and monsters are very distinct creatures. We're more or less aware that we're going to die, so we waste our time with careers, money and shit that will serve as proof that we spent one fraction of a second on this blue marble. Animals do not have this problem, which is why they exist but don't concern themselves with making sculptures or signing autographs, and also why the pain they feel today is not mitigated by the thought of a sunny meadow in June.
As for the job vs college... I don't think there's a figure that justifies being miserable on a daily basis, but maybe if You try to look at the job from a different angle, it wouldn't look like such a drag in advance. There's multiple advantages in it, judging by the way You phrased the question, maybe You could start from there until You find an aspect that You like, or more.