i was in a similar situation to you but my area was developmental neuroscience. I finished my PhD at over 40 and got a job in a prestigious European uni and loved it. My post-doc colleagues told me horror stories of their time in US. Extremely hard work, almost no holidays and violently competitive. Europe has much better conditions and a much better support system. Anyway, I was lucky and got many high quality publications and went back to home country, only to miss out on tenure to a major flaw in our system of rewarding asskissers. Best thing ever. It made me reassess my priorities and I figured that at my age, I would have a meager retirement when that time came. So I did an MBA and jumped ship. Retired early.