On no-ROI deliverables

I've been working 13 years. I'm about to turn 35 years old. (Less than one month, yay.) The first two years I was working, I taught inner-city elementary school in Houston as part of Teach for America. Then, I worked for ESPN for about a half-decade. The teaching job had tons of ROI -- I was essentially "molding future generations," which is somewhat te…