I have a lot of fun teaching.

My current job is a dream I had to work towards though and there were years I taught remedial, struggling readers at a Title 1 school with horrid behavior and learned to be good at it. I am so glad, in retrospect, the district started to crazy micromanage us (school success team intervened because of our low scores and took away even the autonomy of us with pretty good scores -- I usually had near 100% growth and a pass rate of the tests near 50% which was high for that population!). Why? Because it made me leave. I never had fun teaching until I left.

I currently teach AP and IB track kids in an A community high school. I teach them literature, and many actually like to read! It's so much fun. We got new, not great administration this year but our parents are awesome and kept them in check. I get nice notes from students and parents this time of year like crazy. I heard 8 times yesterday at least that I'm the very best English teacher ever, actually made them love English, etc. I got 4 cards yesterday and 2 gift cards plus flowers. A kid knitted me a penguin.

I have union protections and tenure now to keep my not great administration at bay. I have talented colleagues who also worked hard to get into my school (usually not a place people start) and all care about their jobs. I have a good job by all accounts. There are good jobs out there. Sometimes you have to endure the tough ones to get to them and work to get tenure etc.