What jobs pay at least £35k (pro rata) AND offer part time hours?

[Podrick]

I have a job that pays £40k for part time hours. That bit is obviously great. The job/workplace environment is aggressive, macho, stressful and depressing though and I have put up with it and hated it for 10 years now. I feel that I am in a "golden cage" (or at least a silver one) because I don't imagine I could find another job part time on this kind salary...

Kind mumsnetters, brighten my life by telling me what other jobs would potentially pay this kind of salary for part time hours?

[Podrick]

£40k is the full time salary btw not the part time salary!

[Tortington]

manager in local govt - just favourite your bullshit generator (google it) and your laughin

[mollythetortoise]

what is it you do? there are quite a lot of middle manager tyoe public sector jobs that pay that much but that is normally with 10 years plus experience.. would you retrain? teaching in London would pay that after a few years. I am not sure about the private sector, it would depend what your background was/ skills.

[doggiesayswoof]

You can earn £35k and upwards as a manager/senior administrator in higher education

Job shares are sometimes available

I'd imagine you have lots of transferable skills that would compensate for lack of experience in the sector, it's possible to 'break in'

[HeadFairy]

I work in a very similar environment, television news, very male, totally un family friendly, long hours, quite hard core adrenaline. Full time salary for someone with my level of experience (16 years) is £45k so I'm watching with interest... I'm not sure anyone can change career that much though without taking a big pay hit.

[Podrick]

Thanks for the answers!

I have a finance background but have never enjoyed this line of work and want to change direction. I would potentially consider re-training but I live in a small city and am not considering relocating or commuting to London.

[HeadFairy]

Podrick, do you have/could you get the appropriate qualifications to work as an IFA or an accountant? could you then go self employed or work from home?

[ChippyMinton]

agree with custy. Althought part-time jobs are rare at that level, I managed to negotiate job-share out of a full-time post. Local govt tend to be pro flexible working.

[LoveMyLapTop]

teaching top whack is about £35k as is a police officer
any locla govt job would pay about the same?

[Podrick]

HeadFairy - IFA is not a bad idea although I don't ideally want to stay in Finance - but being self employed would be a big improvement on working in my over crowded office rammed full of aggressive managers.

Local government a good tip re possibility of job sharing options.

Am considering teaching although I would need to work full time before going part time

Police officer...am not tough enough for that one

[slalomsuki]

Try a university lecturer, you can start on a contract hours ie paid for what you do and then move in to part time perminant. I know someone who does 24 hours per week for £40 per hour and gets school holidays

[lalalonglegs]

Have you worked at lots of other offices or has your experience of the macho/stressful environment been limited to just a few workplaces? Perhaps you need to join a different company rather than change careers completely?

[LadyMuck]

I'd second a different company.

How about tax adviser? Are you in commerce or practice at present?

I think that it is worth looking at making the most of your qualifications and experience rather than starting again (esp as your pay will reflect those).

[Podrick]

Thanks for all the v helpful advice .

I am working for the nhs with no private sector experience...I am a bit of a round peg in the world of finance tbh - my main strength is that I work really well with non-finance folk but the flip side is that I don't fit in with the other finance professionals. That is why IFA might be quite a good fit.

[dustbuster]

A friend of mine - trained as a accountant - has recently started teaching in a university (accountancy/finance/business studies stuff), and has found it pretty easy to get p/t contracts with no teaching or research experience. So that might be worth exploring.

[ChasingSquirrels]

I'm an accountant in practice, at manager level you would earn in excess of that, and can often get part-time hours.
But you wouldn't move straight into that level.
What about self-employed bookkeeping? You would probably get £20ph.

[marialuisa]

HE administration, there are lots of roles for finance specialists too (or maybe that's just where I work!)

[paddingtonbore]

senior social worker, in the right part of the country (ie where I used to live, not where I live now). I'm sure a senior finance officer for a local authority would be the same if not more.

[SpangleMaker]

Civil service is good (middle-senior management), and not all of them are paper-shuffling Whitehall policy boffins (I'm not anyway!). Many departments look externally & welcome candidates with outside experience. Recruitment is often competency based too, so it's not always about how many years you've clocked up. And they're excellent about flexible working.

If I had a background in finance I'd think about accountancy too.

Oh, and management consultants - I've worked with one or two who had very flexible arrangements. No idea of their salaries but if their fees were anything to go by, definitely in excess of £40k!

[IdrisTheDragon]

I was getting £30k for three days work as a qualified accountant.

[duckyfuzz]

teaching, but you need to be teaching for a few years before you get to top of pay scale and take year of training into account

[duckyfuzz]

and not all schools will let you go p/t, esp if shortage subject area (e.g. maths)

[llareggub]

We get lots of movement between the NHS and Social Services. Your NHS finance background would definitely not hold you back when applying for Social Services finance jobs. I don't know everyone in our finance team, but there are probably equal numbers of men and women. The culture isn't particularly macho or aggressive, far from from it, from what I know of them all in finance. I don't know your skill level, experience etc, but there are a number of people in our finance team who earn in excess of £35k and quite a few middle to senior managers work very flexibly.

Clearly not all local government cultures are the same, but it is worth investigating, I think.

[WellPaidPartTime]

i work in sales and i earn 36/38 a year,

i would earn this pro rata if i worked part time,

[nowwearefour]

central govt pays quite well and lets you go part time very often or indeed term time only working