Of course OP. I'm not sure why teaching is seen as one The Hardest Jobs. Police officers, social workers, prison officers, paramedics are all overworked, difficult public sector jobs where arguably you will see even more antisocial, challenging and physically dangerous people. These kinds of roles also experience similar issues with senior leadership, high expectations - low rewards, unpaid overtime etc. Teaching isn't the worst on that kind of list.
Then you have physically arduous and dangerous jobs, such as construction, offshore work, logging etc where you risk injury and break your body long term and often aren't well respected for your role.
Then you have just low paid shitty jobs where you're on your feet all day, managed by someone who is managing you most likely just because they stuck around long enough, not because of skill, where you're paid a pittance and no one respects your work.
If there was a list of worst jobs, teaching simply wouldn't be up there in terms of physical danger, psychological danger, pay, lack of respect (in terms of how society views the role) etc compared to many many many other roles.
I know people won't like this but I think there's a couple of possible reasons why there's such a propaganda campaign about How Awful it is. Largely in part to do with the people who end up in teaching. Firstly, some are people who did degrees without a clear vocational route, graduated, then didn't know what to do so went and did a PGCE or something. People who started there aren't passionate educators and as far as I can tell resent the hard work and lack of praise that teaching receives. You can seen it in the lack of pedagogy and understanding of child development and learning. It's not even slightly a passion.
Then I think there's some who did expect it to be 'cushy' - short days, lots of holidays etc. Obviously it's actually a full time public sector person facing role. It was never going to be straightforward. I think those are the ones who go on loudest about how they actually work 8 - 5, not 9 - 3, and sometimes have to go in during the holidays and start a bit before term. You can spot these people because they point it out as though they are very hard done by, when obviously all of us who work full time recognise that kind of length of day.
It just tickles me as there aren't forums full of social workers bemoaning how they wrote up their assessment in the evening, got cross examined in court all morning and then spent their afternoon into the evening managing an emergency DV situation and personally getting a mother to a refuge with her kids and stuff and got home at 10.30pm - no overtime paid. No, it's teachers saying they did some marking at home and parents evening went on a bit. There is something different about those who teach that they appear unable to hear what they sound like. That's my theory.