Thanks everyone for the kind words! This is by no means guaranteed--I have to take about 24 semester hours of classes, complete "field work" in HS classrooms, and eventually go through 10 weeks of student teaching. Plus there's the challenge of finding a job as a late career switcher. I like my odds (and math is a decently solid place to be as far as teacher demand), but I definitely don't think it's going to be easy.

At the very least, it's unlikely to be boring ;-).

I'm probably going to throw my hat into the rough and tumble ring of substitute teaching while I'm working on it. Mainly as a way to make a lot of contacts and to provide some foundation for my level of "seriousness" when the later job search starts.

In terms of what might be most opposite of teaching on Zoom, substitute HS teaching might be right up there.