Am I the only teacher who is fairly happy?

[SaltyRock]

I've been teaching since 2013, not long I know, but I love it.
Yes, it's hard work, and it takes a lot of time, and I tutor 3 evenings a week to up my pay as I refuse to take on a TLR, but I'm really happy in my job.
I get to talk about my favourite subject all day every day and show students how exciting it can be!
My school are pretty good. We don't mark classwork and homework is marked in class or online automatically. We have assignments for each class once per half term which are quality marked by us but that is fine.
Preparation is shared eagerly between teachers and everyone is very supportive of everyone else.
Is it just me? Am I incredibly lucky?

Mum, your school sounds like it's a good balance but how does that work in terms of the massive amount of feedback etc. that is needed if you're a HOD, answering parent queries etc. ?
Everything seems to answer to data nowadays so I would be very interested as to how you do this- although I'm in support of marking due to the needs of the pupils I teach, I do think it takes up a lot of time.

OP
Can I ask what subject you teach? I'm guessing Maths?

I teach sciences.

I love my job but there's a hell of a lot of box ticking and filling crap in. Our markbooks are online which means anyone can look at them from school, so that's homework, predicted grades, levels, progress etc. I hate having to justify myself when it's the kids that should be at GCSE! We have to mark fortnightly, show evidence pupils have responded to feedback, level or grade once a term.... progress reports seem constant and I hate to be made to feel it's my fault when little johnny makes no progress even though he never does homework and pisses about in class.

We have book scrutinies regularly within department and from SLT. A colleague had 14 scrutinies in four months and they tried to say she hadn't done stuff when she plainly had. It's all very demoralising and leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

I've been teaching 8 years and am on UPS with a TLR so the money certainly helps. I'm currently on maternity leave and not missing it I'll be honest. I miss being in a classroom, I miss my classes and I very much miss my colleagues but I don't miss the endless crap that I have to wade through weekly.

I have to say not marking books would have a massive impact on me - I absolutely need to gauge what they need help with and what they're understanding regularly.

I love it. There's a lot of pressure and stress but I work in a wonderful school full of lovely staff and children. It's hard work but I'm organised.
There are some real downers out there but I hate that kind of negativity.

I'm an ex-teacher (primary SLT) and workload was a huge factor in why I left.

The huge differences in expectations between primary and some secondaries always amazes me. I have never worked in a primary school where you didn't submit plans or expect to mark classwork. That was some years ago and now it seems that primary teachers mark anything that doesn't move! Then they mark the children's responses to what they have marked...

There seems to be a lot of difference between subjects at secondary too.