I had the same experience. In addition to many jobs being less than full-time, it's also not a very secure job, in the sense that depending on your specialty th

I had the same experience. In addition to many jobs being less than full-time, it's also not a very secure job, in the sense that depending on your specialty there might only be a handful of universities that could ever potentially hire you in any given country. I'm currently transitioning from teaching to dev, and this insecurity is what caused me by far the biggest anxiety, much worse than not having a lot of money. Regarding the article: I agree entirely. I also came into teaching with the goal of being different than the teachers I'd had, but every good intent got beaten out of me by someone who used it as an opportunity to skirt the rules. Combine this with strict admin stuff (you know you're BSing and I know you're BSing, but I can't give you a bad grade because you technically didn't break any explicit rules) and you end up with the current situation of having to preemptively mention every loophole and edge case.