Is Teaching an Easy Job?

An old colleague expressed on FB her anger over the remarks made by a graduate to her former teacher sitting next to her.  The student said she'd like to be a teacher because it is an easy job.

My feedback to her post was: "Like you, I took my job very seriously. " When I was a teacher, after dinner, I worked until 11:30 almost every evening, going over students' assignments, preparing for the next day's lesson, searching online or in books/magazines for supplementary materials related to the lesson, for example, a good article, a song, or a short film.

I never felt teaching was an easy job; however, it was definitely a happy job.