Career change, mad to or mad not to?

Teaching isnt for everyone and if you aren't particularly keen don't do it. I'm confused by the good schools reference, do you mean you would do placement there or get a job there because I don't think a job could be guaranteed. If you don't want to do it, don't. Lots and lots of teachers are leaving the profession for other fields because of workload.

It sounds like madness to go into teaching at this stage. I do not understand why your dh wants you to.

Are the daily hours good for a parent ie starting work at 8 finishing around 4 or working nights and weekends?
you could start at 8 and leave the building at 4 most days, but once a week there will be a directed later finish. Then you will be working all evening once home. The hours in term time are long. It takes me about 3-4 hours to mark one set of books.I have 9 classes. That is after the school day ends. And you also need to plan your lessons. Although some of that could be done in PPA time during the school day some days. Not all. But there isnt enough so most would be done after school. School days are long. Parents evenings are also very long days! Your dh would need to be at home for all of those.

School holidays with your children are a bonus but most will also involve working. but your time is more flexible obviously. You can work when your children are asleep. When my children were small i regularly worked until midnight / 1am.

What if my kids are ill?
Unpaid parental leave. But you still plan the lessons for cover and email it in.

How would you earning less money help him transition to a different career with less pay? I'm sorry but what he is offering just doesn't make sense. Swapping 45k a year for 31k and 20k subsidy is only 5k more than you earn now but will mean loosing VAT benefits and increasing your working hours Alongside study hours. All for a career you don't even want to have.

If you don't want to do it then don't do it. Not for a magical flight of fantasy that it will give you what you need. It will make your holiday time more rigid, you need to do more training and you might hate it! Surely common sense tells you no?

@New2Mumming you’ve just said you don't want to. So don't. If he wants a teacher in the family he can retrain. Why are you letting him tell you what to do with your career? Look for routes to head of marketing, marketing director and CMO.

Why on earth would you train to teach if you don't particularly fancy it? If it's the holiday childcare your husband is after, perhaps he could teach instead. Honestly, the names I've been called today in a small rural secondary, don't even consider it. It's awful.

I'd say only retrain if you really want to be a teacher. I have a parent and sibling who are teachers (and I work in Higher Education.) You're not doing it for the money!
As kids, we also had to accept that Mum wouldn't be at school events, because she had her own class. You need to have a good support network for covering child illness (their father?!), as you can't just leave, unless it's wildly serious.
Don't do it, just because your husband says so.

You earn more now, why the change? It doesn’t read as if this would be for you.

To me teaching doesn’t seem very family friendly at all. Missing all the nativities, all the drop offs and pick-ups (unless you’re teaching at the same school).

I just don’t really see why you’re thinking of it now. If it’s to travel later why doesn’t DH become a teacher (or some other career that allows travel), why is it on you?

Do you want to teach? I mean you've missed that whole part out of your post and it's massive.

Have you spent any time in a school? Before any commitment I suggest you ask to shadow a day or longer in a local school to understand the reality of teaching. What age? I imagine secondary considering the bursary.
and read the staffroom threads on here. Not an 8-4 job.

Personally, I wouldn't do it. Teaching is like nursing, it's not a job but a calling. If you don't feel strongly called to teach, you'd probably hate it. My ex partner was a teacher and he just never switched off.
You will be losing money, flexibility and WFH for something that you, potentially, might hate doing when it comes to it.
I once had a crazy idea of doing post grad teaching qualification and, luckily, it was a requirement to do a two day shadowing before applying for the course. I lasted half a day...

OP, I'm confused.. do you want to retrain as a teacher? Or is this your husband's idea?

@New2Mumming do you want to be a teacher. There is more money in a marketing career.

I would say not to do it until both kids are in school, or until you need to.

Teaching has good and bad days and good and bad points nobody knows if they'll like it or be good at it until they're doing it.

It is very hard work while training. You'll be expected to be in school a lot and working outside of school. I cant imagine trying to parent small children well while doing it.