academia has been poisoned by MBAs so much that you only teach 10% of the time and the other 90% is doing pointless admin. it's almost exactly like a customer service job, at least for adjuncts/entry-level lecturers
The duality of humanity right here. I hated academics and I'm way happier facing clients. Because even if they're being unreasonable, they're still paying me more than a living wage which is more than I could say about my advisor
My company's culture is such that we even call other departments "clients". I was like oh cool, so this is like working consulting except without a sales and legal team covering my ass.
I miss academia so much. Just let me dick around trying to prove theorems and lecture all day again please.