Going back to the bottom
I've been in video production for 21 years and my job is coming to an end this July. In order to get a different job doing this kind of work, I'd have to move, but my wife just got a promotion and will be making around $25-$30k more a year, plus we really want to stay in our house. I could try to freelance, but I'm terrible at sales and I do mean terrible.
Due to that I'm thinking about just going back to work in a warehouse or factory near where I live. I'd be taking a significant pay cut and doing far more physical labor than I've done for the past 2 decades, but I'm absolutely sick of working in offices and I don't want to feel the anxiety of potentially losing another job after sticking it out for a long time like I'm about to.
I've also thought about possibly getting into the trades as an apprentice electrician, but don't know if I've aged out of that line of work or not (I'm 48). I feel like i have the mind for it and the work could be more engaging to me than the standard fare of factory/warehouse labor. It just seems to me like most places would opt to hire someone in their mid-twenties over someone approaching their 50's.
Am I crazy for abandoning my career for a lower-wage/more stable job?