I knew a guy who used to install metal roofs in farm country. In his late 30s he got a nasty job site injury and his boss screwed him out of workers comp. He'd

I knew a guy who used to install metal roofs in farm country. In his late 30s he got a nasty job site injury and his boss screwed him out of workers comp. He'd always had a passive interest in computers and decided to get some certs at the local community college and start his career in IT. Messing around with scripting at his first job as a Junior Sys Admin he decided he liked coding more and became a software engineer. He's now in his 50s and a staff engineer at a unicorn. It can be done. I would focus less on hours and more on just finding something you can stick with and develop professionally.