I know exactly what you mean.... I'm not chasing every possible question though, I'm only answering questions that interest me. So while I suppose I could go off and help a kid do his maths or biology homework it really doesn't interest me to do so.... and hence she can do her own math.
I don't think it is just the weekends....yes the same thought occured to me as well.
Well, when I was in school my weekends were spent 90% procrastinating, and 10% doing my own homework. Now I have no homework, and no friends that still do - so no, I don't feel my weekends are just for helping students get their homework done.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.