They don't prepare you in teacher prep coursework

during college for holding a student's three month old son for 18 minutes so she can finish her final exam from when she was out having said child.

How little "good news" one gets, so that when any drop of it comes in your general vicinity, you relish in it, repeating it over and over as a personal mantra--just to get through the day until the next horrid day comes and the good is overshadowed and doubted...

Intrinsic motivation isn't a part of every human. Especially when it comes to school.

Sometimes working your ass off doesn't pay off.