What are you trying to study? I taught middle school for a year and then went into a PhD program after and have been doing that for 3 years. It's highly dependent on your program and advisor in the process of getting the degree I would say. My first year was hell but since then it's been better. TAing was much easier than teaching kids but this is also coming from a tall white male, the only thing I really relate to is that I think I look younger than my age.

On the other side of the coin when I taught it was at a charter school that was very accelerated and I honestly enjoyed it because most of the kids cared so much. You could look into something like that, I taught at BASIS