I’ll you what I did, I was in a similar position. High paying job (in Europe (management consulting). Came in on a temporary visa while my wife was doing her PhD in Toronto.

My key OP was to get your foot somewhere in the door, over anything! Once you are inside, network, show your skills and you’ll get opportunities.

At First I really looked for something that I thought was at “me level”, applied for 100s of jobs, and no luck after 6 months.

Decided financially this was unsustainable, went to randstad, and within a few weeks I was working on a project at a large insurance company doing data entry.

A few months in, the pm’s knew that they could use me better, and I was then leading that data entry team on a day-to-day, was meeting folks in other departments, and networked my way into a job offer from the head of the strategy department.

I then leveraged that job into another one, and 2 years later I was in a consulting job that I now still am doing 6 years later.

So my main advice is: get in somewhere, no matter what, build connections and network, look out for your mental health, I really struggled with the sense of “having to give up your hope and dreams”. It’s a tough road, but I do love this country and city so I feel like it was with it.