And the fact that I’m saying this, effectively advising you that what you’re saying in the last graf that you’ll have to do is correct, is damn depressing when I consider how very important public school teachers are to, well, the future health of our politeia. I mean, it’s clearly driving you nuts. I’m not even sure making the salary you ought to make would in fact make this job bearable: lots of people get paid huge amounts of money and don’t have jobs that make them happy.

Don’t get me wrong, lots of people end up living okay lives in spite of the effects public school teachers have and haven’t had on them. I see them all the time in my line of work. They’re crippled in all sorts of ways, and their formal inabilities represent huge economic losses (mostly in terms of lost economic productivity, but also in terms of social services) to our country, especially compared to their counterparts in our competitor nations, but, if it’s any comfort, I seriously doubt that much of the damage that led to their seeing folks like me is really attributable to the deficiency of education professionals like you.

Which is to say, “get out as early as you can / and [definitely] have [some] kids yourself.”