To think I'm too old and knackered for this lark

[LovelyBitOfSquirrel69]

Early 50's...professional job... menopausal...insomniac. Am up at 5.30am to get to London for a meeting. This is a regular occurrence and I'm feeling too old for it. Will end up staggering through the day like a zombie, barely functioning, only to get home 13 hours later and go straight to bed. Wish I could pack it all in for a low pressure job but I can't afford the pay cut.

YANBU. I'm 47 and already in a role I can comfortably do until retirement because it isn't too demanding, while being quite senior and well-paid (these roles are like gold dust). When we've paid off the mortgage and got DDs through university/more independent in a few years I'll go part time again and do the role as a job share. I only took the FT role and promotion when my colleague retired with the conditions that I only have to be in the office a maximum of three days a week - this was pre-pandemic.

And I'm not menopausal yet...but have had hormonal health/gynae problems such as endometriosis since the age of 40 so have already had a flavour of it. Also had stress and depression before that after having DDs (work brought most of it on). So I quickly learned to priortise my health and change my approach to work and find the right roles, otherwise I was on a path to very poor mental health/breakdown, diabetes, heart problems and other things caused by excess weight and stress.

Have a look at the Mayo Clinic website. They have a lot of information about vitamins and other supplements, including this article:

newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/multivitamins-and-supplements-to-take-or-not-to-take/