I discarded history almost as soon as I thought about it for just this reason: it has no meaningful value in the job market. The only good options are museum/reasearch work, as well as reproducing your professors by becoming one.

If you like the idea of being a history researcher - go nuts. If you don't - stay away. An alternative would of course be research in a related field with history as a side skill. Sociology comes to mind as a field where you'd be well served by having some points in history.

If you intend to go into education below college, I'd say you should go for a standard education program instead. You'll soon find out that your shortcomings and areas of improvement lie with education knowledge, not the specifics of the subjects you're teaching. If you have a well-above average interest in the subject(like you have with history), you already have what you need.

A friend of mine finished his masters degree in engineering last year. This year he started on a bachelors degree in history - which will include three languages(he's done arabic, I think the next are Hebrew and Persian). I don't have a clue what he's doing, and I highly doubt he has any either....