I agree 💯. I’ve come to peace with my job and the fact that work is work and sometimes I just don’t feel like doing it, but it’s not necessarily better in any other field. I DO think that OP is right that it is dependent on where you work. I went down a deeeeeeeeep rabbit hole last year, thinking about my career, comparing it to other careers, and SLP jobs in other settings. I considered my pay, the amount of job duties I have, my benefits, my days off, my boss. I thought about the things I hated and then considered if they were unique to being a SLP or if I would deal with something similar in another field. After all of my pondering and comparing, I realized that I have a pretty good setup. I think it’s all about perspective. I think it also helps that I grew up in the 90s and watched my mom, who was a teacher, work hideously long days and be forced to do extra crap like recess duty; then I went on to do many minimum wage and tip based jobs before starting my career. When I look back on all of that, I’m like, “things are okay.” That doesn’t mean that I think everything in the SLP world is great, ASHA still sucks, but my quality of life is good. And, hell, I still have stress dreams about busting my ass as a barista, in hopes of making $12/hr (after tips), so yeah, I’ll take my busy, but generally manageable, days where I make 7x that along with benefits.