Some people forget the most important rule of academia is "have fun." I nearly flew into a murderous rage once because I heard a Spanish professor go from lamenting low turn out in classes, then immediately bitterly call Spanish minors mercenaries just looking to inflate their resume. Sorry not everyone places a premium on reading El sid in the original Spanish, it just literally does not matter to most people at all, in the slightest ever, and you need to acknowledge that. I study things because I find them fascinating, and will never delude myself into thinking they are more important than anything else.