I never said it WAS a cake job. As I said, everyone has issues with parts of their job. I could not teach in a public school - I could, but I would probably be fired the first day. If I could teach with the same ability my teachers had, it’d be different. I probably could teach in private schools without much problem.
What I am saying is that teachers make a choice to go into teaching. If it’s really not tolerable, like any job, you need to leave and get a different job. I had plenty of friends at school who went into teaching because it was one of the easiest schools to get a degree in (they always were shocked at what I was taking in engineering).
I agree with everything you say. I actually think I would’ve bombed education courses in college because I would’ve found them tedious. Granted I would’ve bombed engineering too because my mind isn’t geared that way. I can’t think of a major that does a worse job at preparing someone for their career than education. Other than student teaching, there is nothing learned that helps with the actual job.