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Love research, love the culture in academia; Hate teaching - is there a place for me?

It's been slowly dawning on me that at best, I merely tolerate teaching. It's been a little disappointing to discover that since I used to really like teaching continuing ed/college classes to working adults. But I'm currently TA-ing at a public university and it's an absolute nightmare. I find that there's such a huge difference in student motivation and attitude that I needed to seriously reconsider whether the "teaching" part of professor-hood is something I'd want.

On the other hand, I ***LOVE*** research. Theory exploration, data, the whole shebang. Heck, even the REB approval process can be fun sometimes! There are days when my brain is still zooming at 3am because I'm wrestling with a particularly gnarly theoretical knot and I love that so much. Grad school has been such a unique experience because (somewhat unexpectedly) this is literally the happiest I have ever been. I love the work. I love the lifestyle. I kinda...just love everything and want to stay here forever.

But if I dislike teaching that much, where can I go? I'm not in STEM so my field won't have a large industry research equivalent. I feel like if I love research this much, my only path forward is to suck it up and deal with the challenges of getting a TT position and learning to make the best out of hating to teach. Has anyone ever been in a similar position?

**EDIT**: Whoa! Thanks so much for all the thoughtful and helpful responses everyone. I'm going to slowly go through and reply, but thank you - you've given me lots to reflect on and look into. Also, sorry that I wasn't specific about my discipline - it's hard to define since I'm a little bit interdisciplinary (but I hate saying that because it sounds so pretentious). Officially, my degree specialization is business (not an MBA though) but I have my fingers in a bunch of different research pies across the psychology/sociology/economics/poli sci/comp sci literature (although you could also argue that the field of business technically *is* just a combination of all of those anyway)...so a bit difficult to nail down. Thought I'd just stick to the "social science" label for my field haha.
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Maybe you can angle for a position that only teaches grad-level classes. I've met some professors that are well-regarded enough by their institution that they've managed to negotiate that. And I've heard from them that it's far less frustrating than teaching undergrads, especially at a large public school. And grad students tend to want to participate in research, so you might be able to even orient your student interaction around your own research.