What would I teach?

[Stillill]

I have a degree in business and management and have been working in a marketing and communications role for 10 years.

At the age of leaving school after A-levels, I had no idea what I wanted to do so got a basic admin job, worked my way up in the company and got my degree part time 3 years ago at the age of 26 (now almost 30).

I'm fed up in my job and for the last 12 months have been considering doing a PGCE. Aside from walking away from a well paid (but unfulfilling) job, I've been stopped from doing it because I don't know what I'd teach!

I would ideally want to teach secondary and have a passion for English and history however my degree isn't in these subjects! Does this mean I couldn't teach them?

Does my degree mean I would be restricted to business studies? I'm only aware of this being taught at selected schools for a-level only.

Is this just an unrealistic pipe dream?

Ah, as I suspected. Thank you for the response; I shall look into primary.

You could also teach in FE.

I may be totally off the mark but most secondary schools have a business manager these days. You could still have the benefits of working in a school whilst using your background.

A business management role is very different to teaching?

Have you been to observe in schools and spoke to teachers about the reality of teaching?

I'm not sure you could do primary. When I was interested, you needed a degree in a core curriculum subject, and as they don't do business in primary, I don't think you would get on the course. My degree was in modern languages, and so I was told not to apply. It may well be different now though.