Those are good points, to clarify if I were to move towards PP it wouldn't be to see adults online, it would be to see kids in person. The pandemic is not a forever situation, so the issue with doing that online is a temporary issue. It's just what got me thinking about "what do I want to be doing" in the first place.

Work Less Job isn't exactly the issue - it's not just the hours, it's the complexity and nuance of two different jobs. I don't want to have to deal with emotional toll of navigating political academic bs AND the toll of navigating peripheral clinical/PP work (all the accounting/ administrative duties). It's partially the hours, but also the mental capacity of wanting to do one thing.

Being anything other than a full time professor is not financially worth it IMO. Adjuncts make minimum wage, if that, and I just don't think I could do that.

I love being a professor and I love being a play therapist. Little kids are awesome to hang with all day, but I get a lot of joy from teaching too. I am just trying to figure out which brings more joy, because if the general idea is that you have to have a PP to be a good professor, I want out of academia. I don't think I should have to work 2 jobs - I have experience and I don't think my understanding of basic skills is ever going to decline to a point where I can't teach it to students, whether I am seeing people or not.