> In practice, most school teachers I know are themselves perpetually on the verge of burning out from having to handle dozens of children who don't want to be there and constant complaints from their helicopter parents.

My wife moved from teaching (~12 years, IIRC) to content production in a tech startup. She doesn't write code, but she's definitely getting the full working-at-a-tech-startup experience otherwise (though, not one of the really awful ones).

A day rarely goes by that she doesn't mention how much less-stressful this is than teaching was.

[EDIT] If you ask her if teaching is good, she'll tell you that yes, teaching kids is good, but being a teacher is only barely about that, and is less so every year, and all the other parts are shitty at best and deliberately abusive at worst. Plus the pay's terrible, to add insult to injury.