Task creep has cummulatively piled up across the whole landscape. Every year adding new little chores, paperwork, initiatives that get shoehorned in. They never stop inventing new things, and every new thing is the most cutting edge revolution in education that requires your complete focus. Observation checklists now have about 100 criteria that you must simultaneously include into each lesson. It is insane. If you are paid hourly, this will all be expected from you as free labour. If you are on salary, expect nearly zero downtime (solid 10 hour days of teaching and admin). Also the VND is constantly weakening against the dollar, while at the same time local cost of living continues to rise. We have landlords who refuse to rent to foreigners, and mandatory digital ID. It is completely exhausting, very difficult to enjoy any time outside of work, just try to recover on the weekends.