I've been wearing contacts for 35 years. What an improvement over the years.
I use the ones that you take out every night, wear the same pair for 2 weeks. Just soak, no rub.
My left eye has a bad astigmatism; I choose not to see 20/20 out of this eye, as every time I try the astigmatism contact, I have a huge allergy attack because I can feel it... the eye doctor does not believe me, but it's happened twice.
I started to need reading glasses when I was just over 40. I am now almost 58 and now my nearsightedness has decreased and my farsightedness increased and then leveled off about 2 years ago. So... the prescription in my contacts has gone down a lot! I can actually read some stuff without my reading glasses.
I couldn't imagine wearing my regular glasses all day. I have a pair of nice progressives, but the very few times I have worn them all day, I get a horrible headache, not from the prescription, but from having the glasses on my nose all day! Plus, I hate driving with the progressives; I would need prescription sunglasses. Nor could I even contemplate riding. I can't even use cycling sunglasses that have the rim all the way around the lens. It totally obscures my field of vision.
Go for the contacts.