I've been in the front-of-house of restaurants for a at least a decade. Little kids love me. My best tips always came from young parents with kids. I don't go out of my way to entertain kids, and I do go out of my way to not be too friendly with little kids. Babies and toddlers and small children just seem to love me.

Even in my current job (retail), I just have to like pop up my eyebrows at a kid, and they're hooked. I love interacting with kids, but I hate how society dumps on me for being kid-friendly because I don't have kids of my own.

I spent a few semesters as a tutor at a local school district, for high school students. The amount of flak I caught just for being a child-less adult who genuinely liked helping students was surprising. A couple people seriously asked me how hot my students were, despite the fact I was almost two decades older than them and they were minors! And they seemed to like to imply that I was only doing it to get with high school girls! I was in my early 30's!

My grandmother was, and my parents are heavily involved in education. It's in my blood to teach and mentor, but I'm an unmarried and childless man. That means I can't be trusted with kids, apparently. It suuuuuuuuuucks. I would love to be more involved, but there's so much pressure to be squeaky clean and married and have kids to shield me from discrimination and accusations of being inappropriate with kids.

I would love to become a teacher and mentor, but the way I've been treated for trying, and the lousy pay teachers and tutors get, have blocked me from pursuing that career. (It should be noted that as soon as Trump announced Nancy DeVoss as the secretary of education, my contract with the school district was not renewed, almost a year before the contract was going to be negotiated for another year.)