When is it supposed to get easier? I teach agriculture at a community college and started fresh out of grad school three years ago.

In a given semester I'm expected to teach some combination of agricultural history, agricultural economics, a lab agronomy course, food chemistry, agricultural technology (and faa drone regulations to prep them to pass a 107), and agricultural accounting. This semester I teach 21 credits.

I love teaching and engaging with my students and our other faculty and administration is great to work with. But it's challenging to go from one class talking about antitrust regulations and then jump into the next and get into the weeds on the biochemistry behind photosynthesis and conduct a lab with it without missing a beat.

And that's not to say anything of student groups I advise for, committees that I serve on, or time spent engaging with industry partners.

I feel like I still have so much room for improvement in my classes and I want to get better than I am but I also wanted this job for good work-life balance and I'm teaching probably 40 credits a year and just feeling burnt out.

Sorry for making this my personal diary here, just wondering if anyone else has been in the same boat