Ah! Congratulations on finishing the doctorate! And yes, it's always nice to hear that people do love the subject. Having taught high school and heard, in various whining tones, how boring, useless and unimportant it is, I always relish positive signs.

High school teaching is a very different beast from higher ed, and I always recommend that people get a feel for what the secondary school life is like before diving in. It was a rough shock for many of my cohort-mates when they first started observations (let alone student teaching), as they hadn't been in a high school since they graduated and our memories really insulate us from those experiences. If you're already familiar with life among the adolescents and you like high school curricula, yay! ESL helps, too, since depending on where you are located (in the US, at least--I have no idea how this plays out anywhere else) the secondary English job market can be very competitive. I feel like it may become less so in coming years as fewer people seem to be choosing English as an undergrad major. I tutored college English students for awhile, and it was heartbreaking to hear them deride the humanities because you couldn't "get a job doing that." Sigh. I could rant about that forever, so I'm cutting myself off!

Thank you--looking forward to reading about it!!