Not sure if this fits for anti-work but it might do, and I feel like this job is something people may have opted for to escape other exploitative jobs. Not sure what the going pay rates for this are in the US, but I'm in the UK and not sure what to do with myself after graduating but looking at the pay rates, if I joined an online tutoring website and tutored maths, it would pay comparably to a full time graduate office job and I would control my hours and rates. The only bad thing would be the commission paid to the tutoring site but that seems like a necessary evil and they're at least providing a good service.
I don't want this post to become me ranting about myself so I'm wondering if there are any ex-teachers who moved into tutoring as a full time job to escape the hell that is teaching, or if other workers tried to get into tutoring to leave their office jobs? Like I said, in the UK at least and depending on which sites you go on, as a maths graduate you can make £20-25 an hour, and as a teacher £30-50 an hour, which would mean you can work for yourself and value your labour highly without the boss skimming extra value off the top, but it also doesn't seem like a case of 'picking passion over higher pay'. That pay rate in the UK is very good, and if it pays comparably well in the US I just want to know if that's a path many people go down? Tell me your experiences or thoughts about this as a job if so!