15 Reasons Writing is More Exhausting than Teaching Kindergarten

A Comparison of Career Paths

Rachel Steinman
The Writing Cooperative
9 min readFeb 11, 2019

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My First Kindergarten Class

I was ten years old when I got my first paid job. I organized the neighborhood kids on my street to come over to bake and decorate salt dough ornaments. The parents were more than happy to pay me a few bucks to keep their kids occupied for several hours while leaving the mess at my house.

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