Surely everyone lives having to take different things into account, however if the thought of going and doing your job gives you nothing but stress, I believe it would be worth putting all and every available resource into changing that.
An interesting thing you noted with the school story, in reference to a post i made last week - I was looking to get some feedback from people who had any kind of experience with alternative forms of education ( Montessori, Steiner/Waldorf, Harkness, etc.), as the regular democratic education system hardly ever results in anything but the child looking for any least feasible excuse to skip school.