Random economic anecdote, I've been looking through teaching jobs at public schools around where I live and I can't believe how many job openings there are. I've never seen so many, and I've been keeping an eye on them since 2017. So it's true! Nobody wants to work anymore!

(Obviously it's impossible to live here, the pay is actually decent but it's not enough to afford a house within a commute of one or two hours, covid is out of fucking control, and any fucking minute some Nazi could walk in and shoot everyone, also the unions aren't doing their jobs and are not getting pay raises that are keeping pace with inflation.)

I should note, with some amusement, that there wasn't a single opening for any English or social studies teaching gigs. I was kind of curious about a part-time language teaching position so I emailed the principal without even sending my resume and she wrote back and seems kind of interested! Not sure I want to do it but yeah, just totally nuts, never seen anything like it.