Sitting is boring, emails are boring, not owning capital is boring. Religion is not, plants are not, sunlight is not. Building things is cool when they’re yours or your friends’. Kids are fun.

I feel like some guys tend to be wired to really enjoy the grind, but you have to get regular little indications towards progress, and kinda let yourself get ‘addicted’.

Top tier comment, artfully put.

Only two types of people will still be a teacher with current pay expectations:

• those with a genuine passion for education, and get joy out of helping kids
• those with some other ulterior motive for having authority over children.

The amount of absurd power-tripping I suffered under in school makes me think there’s way too much of the second group. We’re definitely getting what we pay for here.