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When Financial Stress Makes You Bitter About Work You Love

I love teaching but the pay is so low I work three jobs and I'm exhausted all the time and starting to resent the kids and I hate who I'm becoming.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic pressures can corrupt even the most meaningful work when survival anxiety overwhelms the capacity for presence and care.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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