I went from college teaching to comission sales. There is absolutely no comparison between the hard work of teaching and real world performance based enviornments. That is partly because teaching, while very hard at first, gets to be easy after a while as you do the same thing year after year.
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. I've worked in commission sales in some form or another for 15 years. After awhile whatever the current company is selling, it's the same as the last company.
Meanwhile my father has taught junior high school history for 42 years. The children are becoming dumber by the day it seems. He has it seems to spend more time coming up with more and more basic lesson plans and ways to engage the little rugrats. Some things children less than 10 years ago understood implicitly is now considered 'too hard' or 'takes away from little Johnny's extracurricular activities'. Is some of it teachers from earlier in the child's career? Perhaps. But I guarantee you in this feel good nonsensical society we now live in, it's a lot easier to blame teachers than admit a lot of the problem in teaching lies at home with the parents
I'd take commission sales as the easier job any day of the week