After 20 years in the corporate world, you get sick and tired of all the bullshit. It's the main reason why I started looking for volunteering opportunities online to teach English learners from the Ukraine and Gaza in my free time -- I'd reached the end of my rope.
And when the company I recently joined decided to invest more than 1 billion dollars on their own generative AI tool, and then I found myself writing less and less but acting more and more as a "prompt engineer," admin assistant, and glorified project manager, I finally saw the writing on the wall. I needed to move farther from what was stressing me out -- the corporate world itself, and Artificial "Intelligence" (which was, evidently, starting to remove me -- and quite a number of my fellow writers out there -- from the equation).
It dawned on me -- I'd been teaching English online to students from other countries for quite some time now. Why not teach English full-time to Mexicans as well? The human element has been disappearing from my corporate job; why not switch careers and rediscover what it means to be human in this world where the machines are starting to take over?
So I traded the cubicle for the classroom. And guess what? I haven't felt this good in a long time.
Teacher Mark reporting for duty. 
