I quit a £30k office job four years ago because I also hated the office politics and having to present a ‘professional image’ etc. I now earn just shy of £40k driving a mixer and I don’t regret my decision.
I do somewhat longer days than my previous 9-5, often 10 hours, sometimes slightly more if accident on motorway etc, but I also have days like today where I started 6am and finished at midday with full pay. Driving whilst listening to music doesn’t feel like work to me. Totally different to my previous office job where it was getting increasingly harder to motivate myself.