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Subbing is the best. All the fun of being with the kids without the crap that everyone else has to deal with. I subbed an entire year in the same building for different teachers daily and by the end of the school year I knew every kid there but didn't have to fill out paperwork, deal with parents and missed all of the staff meetings. Plus, since I worked every day, I got paid about 65% of what the full time teachers made and as much as some of my Catholic school teacher friends, and I could take a day off anytime I wanted. Totally worth getting paid less.

I had a similar experience. Nobody tells you that teaching the kids is really only 30% of the job. Parents, prep, grading papers, dealing with administration, being a surrogate parent, etc. is most of what you do. Plus, if you have a principal who doesn't support you, and makes you feel like the bad guy with the parents it is untenable. I had as many conversations with child advocates as I had with my team the first year I taught. I hung on for 3 years. Finally the principal was nice enough to can me when we "restructured" for the 4th time in 5 years.

It's far from passive. But it's not as much work as having a job. The worst part is the amount of money needed upfront, plus every idiotic thing the tenants do, you are responsible for getting it fixed.

I learned more about how to change a battery in a hearing aid then I did with how to talk to parents, or organize teenagers. Teacher's education is so out of step with what is needed in the classroom its scary. For most teachers, on their first day as a teacher they are totally alone in the classroom, nobody to ask questions to or help. You have to find a mentor in most cases, and usually you are so tired by the end of those first days the last thing you want is someone else pointing out your flaws.

I do not. I own rental properties now.