I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.