Did you change your job or leave work due to the menopause?

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I have read several articles about large percentage s of menopausal women leaving their jobs.About 20%!
I know this coincides with a change on circumstances such as dcsleaving home and mortgages being perhaps paid off.
Did you change careers because of the menopause?

I'm going through the menopause now.
My mortgage is paid off.
7 months I would not have considered leaving my job.
However all the restrictions and changes due to vivid are making me think twice. Its that that's making my job harder and unpleasant, not the menopause.

I left. I was a SNA and the hot flushes, fatigue, dizziness and palpitations are incompatible with chasing small children hell bent on escaping the setting!

I did. Was a Board level PA - left due to perimenopause and horrid, passive-aggressive, narcissistic, bullying female boss. Happy where I am now but resent the fact that she pretty much forced me to make that decision.

That is a shame sweatybetty.I am hanging on with some borderline bullying from an all male team in a hot kitchen.I think I've got my old self back and will only leave when it suits me.I am 54.

I haven't left but went from full-time to part-time due to increased tiredness and susceptibility to stress which I think were both linked to perimenopause. I was lucky because i could afford the drop in wages. Now I look at other women of about menopause age who are struggling in the workplace with much more empathy and kindness.

I’m now post menopausal but .......
I didn’t change my job or leave but I did sometimes struggle. Fortunately, I didn’t suffer from hot sweats/rage etc but I did have anxiety, loss of confidence and brain fog which caused me a lot of problems at work:
Phoning customers and stammering my way through conversations (while my younger colleagues sniggered in the background);
Staring at my PC and not being able to ‘see’ what action I needed to do next (in a job I’d been doing for 25 years);
Worst of all - at the time not realising that these were symptoms of peri menopause - I couldn’t figure out why I’d lost all my confidence or what was wrong with me.

Menopause has been the last straw I don't have the empathy or energy levels to do my job anymore.

Chance would be a fine thing.

Ignacious I know how you feel.Especially with younger vibrant colleagues.Like I said I do feel like my old self more often than not now.

I got a promotion then was demoted due to the menopause
But, I really don’t mind as I just don’t need the extra stress

I’m in peri and I don’t have a job to leave, but while in theory I am ready to go back to work after having children (I am an older mother), the effects of perimenopause mean there is absolutely no way I can even consider it. It’s awful. I have arranged an appointment with my doctor to discuss options because it’s making my life pretty awful at the moment.

Sharplily hang in there.Hrt.. has changed my life almost back to how I used to feel.In fact my joint pain has gone and it was so bad I saw a specialist as work was becoming difficult.My knees and hands were dreadful.
I can't believe I let it drag on so long unaware of was menopause related.