Because of the work life balance , not the salary . My commute was hour and a half to get there , and that back . Plus the sheer level of lesson planning and marking . I again was going to bed at 12am and had to leave my flat in London for 6am to get to work. It wasn’t sustainable for me. . I imagine the first people those people with those complex conditions are going to are specialists in their field , much before nurses . I work in IT now , with the eventual aim of getting into cybersecurity . I did my msc in it last year too. I actually made decent money on teaching , I was actually promoted to head of key stage 3 science pretty quickly .
Nurses are a public sector job so their salaries are somewhat dictated by taxes and what they’re prepared to charge the populace . You might be happy for higher taxes but I’m not . I’m not a socialist , and never have been .
As I said , if these people are not happy with the conditions that they knowingly entered and are now complaining about , they are entitled to leave the field and look elsewhere .
FYI my mam also used to be a senior nurse at James cook and actually made very good money doing it . So again I’m not buying the limited progression in the field