To be a teacher, which is a professional job may I add you need a degree and preferably in a subject related to school, so geography, history, maths, english etc... Then you take a PGCE like myself and become qualified. If you do anything higher that Foundation/Key Stage one then you specialise in a subject like P.E. Teaching is a great job I get to put something back into the community, knowing Ive contributed to the future of this world. I choose my degree because I knew it would cover everything form politics to history to culture to economics and I really injoyed it I wanted to go into transport consultancy but then decided it was going to be a boring 9-5 job. Teaching is going to to be fun, challenging and different everyday.