Need some help please, with job changing advice in later life

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I quit my progressively crappier job and got a dream job

TL;DR: My old job was going to shit, so I got a job as a carpenter. So my old job (gosh, I love typing that) was ok for a while. I worked for the state government, in a regulatory position for an industry. Investigating violations etc. It was getting progressively worse though; one thing I liked about it was being able to go out and see people, and obviously that’s not a thing anymore. And I was getting really tired of babysitting “customers” who were not cooperative. Used to be I could just sh…