What? No. It's quite easy for teachers to locate a school that's looking for them. The state teacher's union usually has a website listing jobs and everyone just uses that one single website.

Where? My brother is a high school teacher and since he's got a math and science background he practically gets hired sight unseen.

Great teachers are often willing to sacrifice pay for the ability to teach at a great school, to be allowed to teach to the best of their abilities, to be able to hold their students to a higher standard.

I agree with you on the fireman, but you are the first person in the UK that says they more than enough nurses. I do know there are different type of nurses though. My grandmother is a semi-retired CPN (think private nurse). She prefers it this way because she chooses when to work and gets paid good money for the few hours she does do. Washing the backside of old people can be pretty damn numbing after a while. But she did put 4 daughters through college this way.

My aunt was an ER nurse who moved into private practice (plastic surgery scrub nurse). Her former hospital calls her on occassion and ups the compensation. I figure if you have to call old employees and promise more money than that is a sign someone is underpaid.

Note, a scrub nurse requires a MS.N. and certs out the wazoo. Those are hard to come by because there aren't enough teachers.