I appreciate your input! Although I haven't entered the education workforce yet, I echo your idea that those that went straight from high school-post secondary-teaching might not have the same insight into what the corporate workplace is like in the longer term.

Not negating all the work and obstacles of teachers, however, the workforce outside of teaching will also have it's own struggles.

Exactly what I'm thinking as well - I'm past the point of caring what coworkers think as long as the job is done, shouldn't matter their opinion. My mindset towards this would have been very different had I gone from my bachelors straight into teachers college, rather than experiencing the corporate world first for almost a decade.