Leaving a well-paying job should feel like a win. Sometimes it does.
But a lot of people hit something unexpected: guilt. For the career you spent years building. For even leaving at all when others would love to have that job.
It's a weird thing to carry when you're supposed to be relieved.
The guilt usually means something though. It points to what you actually cared about, the people, the work you did, etc. And it fades, but it's worth sitting with rather than just pushing past it.