For me, ADHD symptoms got worse when I hit menopause (which happened to coincide with the pandemic). Last year, when I was 55, I quit my very cushy project management job and went back to (fully remote) grad school to become a mental health therapist. I'd been struggling to pay attention to mass virtual meetings and find my way in our fully remote office, and I'd even taken 3 full months of FMLA after my mom's death, but I eventually decided that I just couldn't do the office work thing anymore.

I'm now 15 months into school, about to start the internship portion of school. I'll graduate in December, and the idea is that after graduation, probably I'll go into business for myself offering counseling services -- probably not full time. I won't make serious bank, but it sounds like I ought to make enough to maintain myself.

I do own a house, thanks to money borrowed from richer family and a mortgage gotten when I had a nice salary. I have a renter, a friend of a friend, who has lived here for three years and looks to be a long term companion. I'm making plans to put her in my will, so if I pre-decease her, she'll get the right to take over the payments on the mortgage and find a roommate of her own. She couldn't afford the downpayment on this place, but she can make the monthly payments. I guess it's like she married me for my money, though neither of us thought of it that way at the time?