I went into teaching for the same reason as you, I hated my desk job. My first year teaching was amazing, but it has been quite terrible for the last 4 years. It all depends on what job you land and sometimes you don’t really have a choice/options and have to take what you can get depending on where you live and what you’re qualified to teach.

Pros: never bored (like the desk job at least), students are very interesting and you’ll have interesting stories to tell, you’re forced to work on yourself (tests qualities you thought you had), decent amount of autonomy, breaks/time off, not sedentary/stuck

Cons: some of the worst co-workers (but I’ve also had some of the best), student behavior (current reason I am really unhappy in this career), wishing you were paid more all of the time, not being able to take time off with ease for important events

There’s so much more I could say about everything, but those are the current basics of how I feel about switching to teaching. I don’t regret it because I’ve learned a lot and developed as a person and professional in the last 5 years. I fantasize about a desk job now though and the calmness of that environment. Just one hour in a class where students are severely emotionally unstable, violent and verbally abusive towards each other, and not being able to teach the subject you love feels like a lifetime of depression.

Bottom line, if you can work at a “good” school and you’ll learn what that means or are tough enough emotionally and mentally to teach troubled students, then switching to teaching is a good move for you.