Sample size of 1, and it's up to my friends and peers to determine if I'm "ungifted", but I've wanted to be a professor since I was a teenager; I like teaching, I like research, I don't want to deal with "children".
I'm doing a part time adjunct lecturer thing, and I absolutely love it, but it's an extremely difficult thing for me to consider doing full time. In my full time engineering job, I get paid almost triple what a full time lecturer makes at the school, so it's not something I have seriously considered; nearly anyone qualified to teach software at a college level is also qualified for a cushy engineering gig.
If my professorships paid something comparable to my engineering job (or even if they paid at least half of an engineering job), it would be a much easier sell for me.
I have to think that the same would be true for primary school teachers.
I'm doing a part time adjunct lecturer thing, and I absolutely love it, but it's an extremely difficult thing for me to consider doing full time. In my full time engineering job, I get paid almost triple what a full time lecturer makes at the school, so it's not something I have seriously considered; nearly anyone qualified to teach software at a college level is also qualified for a cushy engineering gig.
If my professorships paid something comparable to my engineering job (or even if they paid at least half of an engineering job), it would be a much easier sell for me.
I have to think that the same would be true for primary school teachers.