Magazine Article?

So I started to read this in the NY Times Magazine.

I admit it, I'm really stressed and really busy and didn't really have that much time to read it, but I swear I would have.

Until, in the third paragraph, the author asserts that joining TFA is like suspending adulthood, or "Forestalling the beginning of adult life."

I stopped reading. And started fuming.

Really? I'm not an adult? I live across the country from my family. I pay rent. I pay bills. I put almost 10% of my income into the retirement system. I have health benefits. I pay off my school loans.

I have to tell parents how to parent their child. I watch children come in neglected and abused and have to call Child Protective Services. I sit with my colleagues as they call CPS because they need moral support. I hold the futures of 30 little peanuts in my hand and have the responsibility of shaping their life paths.

I teach them so they have the opportunity to go to college.

I don't get paid in rainbows and sunshine.

So HOW on earth am I NOT an adult?