Have you thought about something else _other_ than work/school to get you out of the slump?
I work in IT. Always have. If I'm in a slump, I go into nature; melt into a forest, preferably where no other human is.
Do you have anything like that you could do? Could be a sport, table top model painting, etc. Something else that doesn't involve a screen.
Working in IT will not improve your mental health. If anything, it will degrade it due to the oft political, and as you've noted, educational pressures.
I work in IT. Always have. If I'm in a slump, I go into nature; melt into a forest, preferably where no other human is.
Do you have anything like that you could do? Could be a sport, table top model painting, etc. Something else that doesn't involve a screen.
Working in IT will not improve your mental health. If anything, it will degrade it due to the oft political, and as you've noted, educational pressures.