If you earn over £100k

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What do you do? How long have you been doing it? What qualifications do you have/how did you get into it?

Working in the NHS and considering leaving to peruse a career with higher earning potential.

I suppose I continued a conversation from above where a number of people commented on how people were quoting their husbands experiences and not there own:

i have clealry got caught up in a conversation and I will be honest I got passionate.

I am sorry if I have have been rude - I should not have been. I will bow out now.

No, she hasn't. The question was, what do you do. You - the person replying - the one who has actual experience.

There's no point in people responding with what their OH/uncle/nephew/line manager/company CEO/Member of Parliament/King Charles III/Elon Musk earns. If we are going down that line, the OP might as well simply have googled a list of careers with an earning potential of over £100k

You've been perfectly reasonable, Striped.

Stripedbag101 · Today 00:30
MrsSkylerWhite · Today 00:26

Striped bag

Why have you taken a very straightforward question, what career can I look into to command a higher salary with less stress and tried to turn it into a male versus female issue (and been very rude to people who answered that question in good faith along the way).
You’ve completely hijacked this thread with your agenda.
I suppose I continued a conversation from above where a number of people commented on how people were quoting their husbands experiences and not there own:

i have clealry got caught up in a conversation and I will be honest I got passionate.

I am sorry if I have have been rude - I should not have been. I will bow out now.”

I’m sorry too. I feel passionate on behalf of my husband because he really is one of the - very few - good guys. He gave up a private sector role where had he continued we would have been sitting pretty for the rest of our lives because he is one of those very few people that really does believe in the greater good. Tbh, it still pisses me off a bit which is probably why I responded so angrily.

He has helped so many thousands of people with his knowledge and expertise. He’s secured their pensions. None of them know it because he’s a faceless and nameless public sector worker and yes I am incredibly proud of him. I wish I was so honourable.

Actress.

I wish I was so honourable.

What is stopping you from being equally honourable?

If your motivation is money, it seems to mostly be in finance, cyber security (still a new industry), legislation and some HR functions. It's certainly not in professions like some areas of healthcare, medicine (with some private practice exceptions), education and other predominantly female dominated professions that contribute directly to the wellbeing of humanity...

musixa · Today 00:46
I wish I was so honourable.

What is stopping you from being equally honourable?

I feel sorry for you.

Why?

Because you can’t seem to acknowledge that some people are just good.

What? How is asking what's stopping you being as 'honourable' as your husband not acknowledging that some people are 'just good'?

£120k part-time (I work 75%)
Airline Captain
25 years of experience
However the training costs £100k

Very stressful job, I should think!

In-house Corporate paralegal (in the US). Also ICSA qualified in the UK. I work approx. 35 hours a week.

Forgot to say, around 17 year's experience.

Why does the training cost that amount?

@musixa ahem, a man entered the discussion; pray, show some deference while he explains the numerical stuff to us, please!

😁

Executive in tech consulting. I know 100s of women that are over £100k and way beyond.

Consulting (management, tech, tax/finance) has probably the biggest concentration of high women earners.

MrsSkylerWhite I am a little bored of hearing about how wonderful and high earning your husband is. Can we all agree he is a god and you a goddess for bagging him. Well done both of you and all that.

I agree @MrsSkylerWhite please talk about how wonderful you are rather than your DH - your posts come across as very OtT

I earned just under that as middle management in the construction industry. Doing a ‘back room’ job as such that a lot of people don’t understand.

Took me 13 years to do it. No qualifications except reasonable A levels.

I guess I’m very lucky that my current and last company have been female heavy on the board.
Last company at one point was all female except one (financial services), was more 50/50 by the time I moved on.
Todays company has gone the other way, was male heavy when I joined, now 50/50 split (small household electricals).
I do have to say that prior to these two that company was definitely still uses ‘the old boys club’ for recruitment.

I’ll add to my original comment, I am the only woman in my role in my company. The men all have wives who either don’t worK or work part time.

it’s definitely rare for a woman to reach my role.

This is a very good point worth discussing further.
Certain types of intelligence are very helpful and can make it easy reaching a certain level, but that alone can’t carry you to the top.
I thought a lot about that, as I was trying to figure out why I won’t reach my potential.

The foundational attributes to success I think are:

• Entry level - hard work, initiative, “hunger”
• Junior-mid - relationships and political savvy, confidence (but not perceived as arrogance - a precarious thin line for women), ambition/grit/dogged determination to climb the ladder. Intelligence and/or hard work very helpful
• Mid-senior - without hard work and strong relationships, this is where only relying on intelligence maxes out
• Senior and C-level - no idea, I’m in the previous group - I am not great at the savvy relationships and I am not willing to work hard 😞