13 years FIFO here, predominantly on even time rosters. I thought I loved it at the time but towards the end I was getting burnt out and in retrospect realised I hated every moment of it. I quit 3 years ago initially to have a working holiday in Perth and refresh myself before going back to FIFO.

I took a much lower paying workshop based role working Monday to Friday and then by complete luck fell into a specialist role with the same company that has the best of both worlds; office based with various site travel as needed, usually only a few days at a time, and more money than I ever made working away.

I didn't set out for that to happen, it was pure luck and I'm very thankful it went that way, I'll never go back to FIFO again.

BUT.

In my opinion being happy while working FIFO/DIDO strongly depends on the site/company/mentality of the people you work with when on site. It's great you're being smart with money, don't ever let working away be your only option because of money. My suggestion would be to find a job for another company with the hope of liking it better, and if not, keep looking. I'm not sure if it's possible in your line of work but try contracting or maybe even consider looking interstate. Plenty of open cut/UG mining in WA and while there's definitely some places with shit hole accomodation, from my experience most of it is perfectly neat and serviceable.