I want to quit my job but I'm scared to leave, what do I do?

You want out, and the wanting has been there a while. But fear is louder than wanting, so you stay, and staying quietly wears you down. That fear is not weakness. Leaving a known thing for an unknown one scares almost everyone, because a familiar hardship feels safer than an uncertain hope. Fear like this shrinks when you turn it into specifics. What exactly are you afraid of? Money, judgment, the empty space after? Name the real one. Most of the time the fear is a fog, and a fog looks far more solid than it is until you walk into it and see its actual edges. So you do not have to leap today. Take one concrete step that makes leaving real: update your resume, save one month of expenses, or apply to a single job. Fear feeds on standing still. One small move toward the door will quiet it more than another month of waiting.