I 100% agree with you :^)
Great points
and I am happy that I already quit my last job ( as a teacher in higher education ), that very much felt like an office job, eventhough the work continued at home, 5 and a half years ago, years before all this craziness.
I was just reading this article about colleges expecting PhDs to work for free and it's like, yeah. No matter how educated you are or what your job is, it's so exploitative. I'm glad you got out of there!
Exploitative indeed, as is the case with many jobs ( slaves to the system, alas ).
It was draining me, burnt me out,
and I wasn't able to give the students what they needed, no matter how hard I tried. I quit after almost 3 years, regained my freedom and never looked back. Discovered crypto and the blockchain 9 months later and moved to Portugal the year after that.