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Interesting to note that in your examples, the teachers left for something less stressful rather than higher paying. Most people bring up higher pay as a panac

Interesting to note that in your examples, the teachers left for something less stressful rather than higher paying. Most people bring up higher pay as a panacea. Surely, huge salaries would attract more people to the profession. But even software developers making $300k+ per year get burned out and leave for a easier career. And I'm willing to bet that teaching is significantly more stressful as writing software. We need to make being a teacher suck less, not just more lucrative.

pessimizer 4y ago
> the teachers left for something less stressful rather than higher paying. My statistical assumption would be that this is because you can't just switch professions and stay at the level that you were at before. You can't go from being a teacher with 10 years of experience to being an accountant with 10 years of experience in 1 year. They're leaving to start over again. Of course the jobs pay less (or the same because teachers are underpaid); if they were also equally stressful, there'd have been no reason to leave teaching.