I've struggled a bit with DD's frequently expressed goal to be a teacher. I think teaching is certainly a noble profession, but an embattled and hard one. She is probably simply looking up to the teachers in her life. I don't really want to say anything against it to her at this age, though I've pointed out that many jobs involve some kind of teaching and that one can be a professor as well as an elementary school teacher (which is what she means).
Nowadays lots of the teachers at colleges are adjuncts, not tenure-track professors, and almost any white collar job, including teaching in the public schools, offers better pay, benefits, and security than being an adjunct. No one earns a PhD dreaming of being an adjunct, but that's what many would-be professors end up doing.
