Well...if you want to move to this shit-hole, Commie of a state, I could get you a teaching credential to teach shop/auto class in a day for like $100.
No degree needed, just 1 college level US Constitution class, take like 3 classes on "how to teach" in the next 5 years, and BAM! Instantly credentialed and hireable by Thursday on a prelim credential.
Average starting salary in CA is about $56k/year. Many districts will bump you up the payscale based on years of experience in the real world, so you would statt higher. My district tops out at $105k... if you get lucky and get an extra class to teach (4 a day instead of 3) they pay you almost 25% more. There are PE teachers at my school making over $125k not much money, but no stress, off at 3 everyday, never work weekends, 2 weeks in the fall off, 2 weeks off around Christmas, 2 weeks off for Spring break and ALL SUMMER OFF. 3 hour and a half classes everyday equates to four and a half hours of teaching, and a hour and a half "prep" for grading/lesson planning. And the pension is tits. Like big glittery stripper tits with eraser nipples. So much so that its bankrupting CA.
I have turned 4-5 people into HS teachers that would have never thought of that career. One buddy was a cop who saw a 12 year old girl get her brains blown out..stress got to him, now he is teaching law enforcement classes and could not be happier. Got another who had his own cabinetry business...now he is teaching woodshop.
While CA sucks balls, one thing they got right is getting people with real world experience into career tech classes in its high schools. Thats how all this works.