To consider retraining as I head towards 40?

[twolittleboysonetiredmum]

I’m 38 and have been a primary school teacher for 11 years. I don’t think I can do it until I’m 70 which is my likely retirement age. I like it just resent the fact I have to engage with it constantly in my free time. I’m also being steadily pushed into management which I dislike as it removes me further from the reason I enjoy my job.
I would like to retrain to be a nurse. I have always wanted to enter nursing but had a disrupted childhood and entered teaching as an easy in with my scattered education. I don’t have a scientific background and have an English degree.
Would I be nuts to enter a similarly pressured role like nursing? Is it daft to retrain at my age? We could handle the financial pressure for a few years until I qualified. Our children are fairly young now but after 3/4 years training we could manage the shift pattern element. I just can’t decide if I’m mad to even consider it but cannot bear to be in this job endlessly.

I'm 35 and plan to do an MBA once the kids are a bit older ie. in a couple of years time.

You're still so young OP!

Ouch though, nursing, no way! Very physically hard.

YANBU, a friend of mine retrained just before he was fifty and ten years down the line he's still doing really well in his new field. He says it's the best thing he's ever done. Just make sure you have a look at all the options out there, you might find something that you hadn't considered before.