To ask what high earners do all day?

I just thought your comment about cosplaying was quite dismissive of the contributions on this thread.
Apologies if this was not your intent.

in our capatalist market, people get paid for the value they bring.

there really aren’t any cushy numbers.

a family member (in banking) recently seemed to have an easy wfh job £160k a year. Log in, have a cup of tea, hop onto a meeting and nod his head a lot.

I was like this is amazing. I work like a donkey in the NHS.

He was like nah I’m waiting to be made redundant. And then he was. It’s pretty ruthless nowadays.

I earn multiples of the figure posted in the OP.

I’m a single mum of 5-year old twins, but have to fit in work as a priority around them.
I’ll frequently have meetings at 6am with Japan and Singapore. Then a break to wake up the kids and bring them to school. Then back to work (WFH 100% of the time). I’ve a nanny for the afternoons, so I’m in meetings with the US until about 7pm/7:30. Often have meetings at 9pm/10pm after the kids are in bed.
Loads of decision making, frequently without all the necessary input information. Risk-taking based on the outcomes of the decisions. Constant worry about job security. Zero time for me (definitely no golf!) Not good for physical or mental health.

But luckily, very little travel, no networking events, no weekend work (unless called for a major incident), flexibility with my daily schedule to attend any kids events (school play, etc).

A good friend of mine earns more than £150k. He spends his working life sitting in a comfy chair looking at some small screens & looking out of the window. At 36,000 ft.

He is a senior training captain who flies Airbus A350 aircraft across the world, and trains junior pilots to do the same. But the actual flying is the easy bit (most of the time). The challenging part is that as captain he is legally, morally & contractually responsible & accountable for the safety of the aircraft and for the lives of the 350+ people on board. That responsibility is what keeps him awake at night, and that’s what he gets paid the big money to do.

Work very, very hard. Take major decisions. Cope with enormous pressure.
Just how naive can you be, OP?

PPS our CEO is on c£1.2million.

I actually spoke into it and it wrote up
my bullet points and thoughts cos if you actually read it you can see it’s not generic!

I work in the insurance industry. Why?

How on earth am I a troll?

I think they are largely paid for responsibility and expertise at that stage tbh. I’m not going to divulge actual earnings, but my director/board member dh mostly liaises, manages and networks - he spends most of his day speaking to people. He also makes decisions that involve many millions of £.

I think your numbers are off. You talk about people earning c.150k but then mention high flyers playing golf all day.

If you are earning around 150k the likelihood is you’re an employee who has built a career and moved their way up the pole. They’ll be managing a few teams but will also be one of a number of teams being managers by someone else, who then answers to C suite.

This means they’ll actually still be connected to the work they’re doing. They’ll be sat around colleagues and will still very much be “desk based”. These are likely those who are under the most pressure in the company.

The long lunches and dinners and golf club stereotype will be C suite level. In most companies these will be earning at least 450k per year. I think it’s these people you’re interested in. There’s less pressure on these because they can stay afloat and move on after three years to another well paid job.

There are hard workers and grifters at every level. Many of those at the 150k level will have been lucky enough to be privately educated, get into a Big 4 and will have stayed there a few years. This doesn’t indicate talent.

this is a silly question. You might as well ask what anybody's job consists of if its not a job that you know about.

DH leaves home at 5.30 am and commutes and hour and a half. Starts about 7am. He might have had calls in the night if he’s on meetings with Australia. Works all day- non stop meetings, phone calls, PA brings food / drinks in. Leaves around 7.30pm and gets home for 9ish. As soon as he’s back he checks his phone And emails and replies back whilst eating tea. Goes to bed and repeat

What do you do ? How do you earn your money

What line of work are you in @SpoonBaloon

Did you have to quote the whole post ... just for one sentence!

Sounds like he did a good thing by preventing the distribution of apple shite and stopping iPads getting into the hands of obnoxious Gen Z children. Have to disagree with Steve Jobs on this one.

That applies to the vast majority of threads on here

The OP could have asked ChatGPT herself, if she so wished.

Silly comment. Obviously, those of us on lower and average incomes do try to move into senior positions, but getting past the interview is the big challenge.

Why would anyone pay someone £150k to play golf. Get real!

Big pay = pressure to perform, take big decisions, manage big budgets/teams ie big responsibility and sometimes be available outside work hours.

I advise my clients on matters including legal compliance. So, governance is on me. If things go wrong I have to get the right people together to create a solution, sometimes that's not possible and the worst happens.

I send about 5-7 hours a day in meetings where decisions are taken, so little time for actual work on strategy/plans most days which means I need to work fast and occasionally in the evening or on a weekend.

No golf, no posh lunches, sometimes posh dinners but they are def work. Most people in pressured jobs wish they could just to to work and forget about it when they get home. Sadly the majority of them can't forget work cos there is always something that needs doing that hasn't been completed yet - well that's the case in my field, anyway!

The cosplaying is strong in this thread.

My BIL makes that amount in sales for an aviation multinational. It took him 5 times to get GCSE English and more for maths. Did a media studies type degree (after doing GNVQ then HND) in an ex poly. Where he excels is in selling things, he has the gift of the gab and has been constantly headhunted. I don't know what he does on a daily basis but he's always answering his phone out of hours and has a lot of anxiety because one wrong move will cost him his job.

I chose to teach as a second career, and experienced SLT teachers became the enemy. I loved the teaching, and the challenge of the performance because every single class is a performance, but the negativity was too awful. I retreated into managing pensions. There are some amazingly dedicated teachers slogging their guts out for not much, but they would have been better if they had done a commercial job before they started to teach... even if it was only a junior hospitality job.