> However, the current situation is mostly at odds with making a career out of education.

Yes, this is the part that really bothers me. I'm fine with people doing creative work like writing and music without much financial reward.

The shitty part is that they still have to spend so much of their precious time doing other stuff to get the financial reward needed to pay their bills.

It's not a tragedy in my mind that writing doesn't pay, it's that we require something that does pay.