If you enjoy your job and earn £50k+, what do you do for a living?

[Querymary12]

I'm thinking about a career move and I'd be keen to hear about what other options there are out there.

Accountant in practice- it's my own firm

@QueenofLouisiana

Not me, DH, deputy head of a Special School. He’s incredibly happy in his role.

One day, there will be a post on MN asking for women's experience which is not responded to by some random OH/man shit.

I live in hope.

Ecological Consultant (Principal level); PhD plus 10+ years experience. Hard work (long hours), but often very interesting/intellectually stimulating.

Specialised accountant in industry.

Senior Clinical Scientist in an NHS teaching hospital. Love it. Very stressful and requires a long training route though. MSc/PhD/clinical exams.

Civil servant in London, finance manager, salary 57k.

I'm not quite 50k; I teach in an independent prep school.

53k should say.

Rertired from finance at age 48, earning more than that. now help run my Dh's family bsuiness on that

Finance in the public sector. The hours can sometimes be long, but it's flexible so I can collect DS at 3pm twice a week even though I work full time by working early mornings/after DS' bedtime.

I really, truly love my job. I know it sounds dull to a lot of people, but I really believe that we should look at spending every pound of taxpayer's money as if it came from the pocket of the poorest in society.

Widely reviled as a profession on here, but I'm a Director of a fundraising team at a big non-profit (in the US, but did the same job in the UK). I absolutely LOVE it. Get to meet interesting people, do a little bit of good in the world and no two days are the same.

You also have the opportunity to work in lots of different sectors - education, research, social change, health care, the arts, NGOs - they all need fundraisers.

Contract management and contract placement, interesting job, pays well.

Run a business with DH. We make bespoke household items, have a retail showroom and workshop behind with 8 staff.

Love the contact with clients, hate the after hours constant paperwork. If we get 2 weeks leave a year, we consider ourselves very fortunate.

Biggest bonus is that no 2 days are ever the same, and our dogs get to spend all day with us at work.

I'm a civil servant in London. Absolutely love my job and always have. Great colleagues and opportunities to move roles - think I have had 12 jobs maybe in 20 years. I earn nearly £70k.

Procurement manager.

Nice mix of finance and legal without the years needed to train as an accountant or solicitor. Very 9-5 and training/professional qualification usually offered on the job.

I’m public sector now but in the private sector there were also healthy bonuses for good performance.

In house recruiter for a pharma company

Corporate comms for a financial services company.

I’m a nanny

@Ankylosaur

Ecological Consultant (Principal level); PhD plus 10+ years experience. Hard work (long hours), but often very interesting/intellectually stimulating.

This sounds really interesting!

For me, IT Service Manager. I don’t love it but do gain a lot of satisfaction from it.

Hospital consultant £123K last year hard work but I wouldn't do anything else.

HR. Love it!

@Beaconoflight

I’m a nanny

You earn over £50k?! Where do you work and do they have any vacancies?!!!

Law - in house in a really interesting sector. I usually love it but I’m a bit burned out recently if I’m honest.

Nurse, fairly senior. Love my job about 90% of the time, I think that's good going.

Media / content.

Not secure but interesting for sure.