If you made the jump today to the real world you would get 7 paid holidays and 2 weeks vacation, (because most likely you would come in at an entry level employee. And maybe 40 hours of sick leave, (unless your PTO and SL are combined in which case you might get 3 weeks vacation to use how you see fit). So at best with the other holidays you get 4 weeks off and work 48 weeks. Big difference from teachers with multiple weeks, (yes unpaid but time to do whatever you want with no expectation of answering parent emails or phone calls for 10 plus weeks a year). I left teaching, (still involved with music), and I do not get any personal days other than my PTO/SL. I will say I have more flexibility with my work from home schedule and can shift things around which is really nice but I work all summer and Thanksgiving break and Christmas break and Spring break now because those aren't my vacations in the business world.

Do some research on starting salaries with bachelors degrees. You might be surprised to find that teachers starting pay isn't that far off. If you are a salaried employee in the non-teaching field you don't get compensated for extra time unless your company offers bonuses. Hourly employees get paid overtime but salaried folks don't regardless of the field you work in. Otherwise, you work till the job is done just like teachers. Most "duties as assigned" are within reasonable work hours, (morning bus duty for 20 minutes etc), and not that much of a burden. And even in my current field I have a few of those "duties as assigned" that require an evening or a Saturday to do things for the company.

I will say that some professions do offer more vertical opportunities. Education does too if you are willing to get out of the classroom. But with education, either you teach, you are department, you are building admin, or you are district admin. So if you only want to teach you are locked in.