u/Formal-Foundation-80

Hi, I'm an audit manager with 9 years of experience in fairly low cost of living area and for the past 4 years, I've just been tormented by being assigned to this one partner that no one likes working for. He's well past the retirement age, yet he still shows up and makes all of manager and associates lives fucking hell by making unrealistic deadlines, making everything urgent, nitpicking on low risk items, requesting last minute audit procedures, randomly pulling me into his office to criticize my work, and throwing me under the bus in front of clients. Last year, the pressure got to me so much that I made a bunch of mistakes and still to this day he holds that against me and complained to other partners about me. My reputation is not great despite putting in tons of hours and being liked by associates and other partners. I talked to HR and they said they will try to take me off his clients but no luck. I just don't know what to do. I just feel so stuck and I hate audit and do not see myself doing this long term. I'm making over 6 figures but it's not worth my mental health. I started applying for financial analyst position that offer 75-80k and still have no luck. I don't know if I'm too overqualified or do not have enough ASPE/IFRS clients because my speciality is NPO. I don't want to quit without a job lined up. I could go on stress leave but I don't think it's going to help because I'll come back right where I started. Any advice on leaving my current situation without too much financial damage would be helpful. Thanks.