First two are usually filled with coaches (despite being the son of a coach, I don't have any coaching experience), the ESL I did get a few interviews for places 90 minutes from where I live but they filled with more local people, and there were no local English vacancies this year. Doesn't help that the ESL and English certs weren't completed until after the hiring season had begun in spring.

I just interviewed for a part-time ESL at a new Nashville charter school, but they were offering only 5 hrs. a week. $90/week with a daily commute of 2 hrs. both ways would have led to a near-negative income. There's another charter school that needs an ESL teacher plus an afternoon tutor for 2 hrs./day, so that combined with possible ACT/SAT/GRE tutoring and maybe later an adjunct history teaching position at a local community college (those pay only $1500/course, up to 3 a semester), could maybe net me what I was making teaching at a residential treatment center before they terminated the adolescent program some months ago.

The realities of the profession are different from what many report in newspapers. Almost all of the vacancies are in math and science and while I may be able to pass the NTE exam in some of those, I'd still probably have to wait until summer 2013 for a position to open up near where I live. C'est la vie.