What jobs are really well paid

[Lardlizard]

Apart from finance law and medicine

Banking? Medicine isn’t that well paid compared to corporate law.

Following so I can retrain and live a life of luxury

Sales can be lucrative if you are good at it.

The best paid people I know work as...
Oil rig employees
Computer programmers
Engineers

Jobs in the tech industry

Most jobs on the oil riggs

actuary

in terms of it being relatively normal / accessible ie not "ceo of top company" or "internationally renowned lion tamer" etc

oh you said not finance

sorry

doctor in private practice?

oh shit not medicine either

i'll get my coat

I've always wondered what an Actuary is.

Best paid people I know are accountants,
Lawyers and doctors.

Oil related. You dont need to be on the rigs.

MeAgain - I was really hoping you'd suggest proof reading next

What do you consider well paid?

I've always wondered what an Actuary is.
I would explain but one of us will fall asleep with boredom half way through 😂

(I am not an actuary but do something similar and work with them, some of them are really nice and can be good fun)

DH is a strategic planner and now an agency CSO. Very good pay

High-level marketeers with big international corporations also pay pretty well.

Strangely I know several very rich builders but they’ve got their own companies and presumably made money from land or property or similar.

Successful entrepreneurs. The wealthiest people I know started their own company and are rolling in multi-millions.

The dermatologist I saw privately yesterday. £250 for the consultation and another £200 for the (tiny) procedure she did. I was in and out in less than 15 minutes. She’s making £1800/hr. and she only works school hours!!!

Dictionary says
"a person who compiles and analyses statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums."

They do data
Lots of crunching numbers in excel
coming up with premium rates and other stuff too
Modelling (trying to predict what will happen in various situations)
loads of other stuff probs

I am not one but I know a lot
As a breed they are down to earth, friendly, and enjoy a drink (big generalisations obviously!)
Actuaries who are also good communicators (as in can give good presentation to large groups / be put in front of clients etc) can really earn
But ones who just do the number crunching earn well too. I mean, I think they earn well :)
General insurance pays better than life & health, if you are looking for a new career!

Responsibility level Average basic salary (£)
Chief actuary, senior partner £206,236
Senior function head, practice director £135,192
Function head, practice head £116,676
Department manager, managing consultant £95,053
Section manager, senior consultant £83,713
Section leader, consultant £73,103
Senior actuary, junior consultant £66,066
Actuary £51,594
Student actuary £35,936
Recent graduate £32,825

london would be higher

IFA

Town planners
Surveyors
Project managers

And whatever happens with AI and technology people will always need somewhere to live so worth investing in imo.

Quantity Surveyor

Engineer ? I didn’t think they were particular well paid? Tbh I think finance is probably going to be the easiest route to go down in term of pay and hours etc

Tbf the engineer I know works in the oil industry - that's probably why it's well paid.

And my definition of well paid starts at £50k/year, which by mumsnet standards probably isn't high ;)