Anyone who is confused as to why there is a “teacher shortage” has likely never spoken to a teacher (yelling at one doesn’t count).

Yea, my wife teaches. She loves the teaching part. She says the worst part of her job is the administration. They’re callous, unresponsive, and unsupportive. She also has to do a ton of work outside of contract hours and gets paid beans for it.

The same is true for nurses. There is no shortage of nurses. Only a shortage of nurses willing to deal with shit staffing and pay.

As a former teacher, yeah, I agree. I quit because I had office staff who regularly screamed at me over administrative bullshit. It just wasn’t worth it.

I enjoyed the hell out of it, but I made 2x or now 4x the money by working in my field rather than teaching my field.