Salary, job and stress levels

[Goforththenorth]

What’s your salary, role, and stress levels (or work life balance)?

I earn £42k per year, I’m a civil servant. My stress levels are low, although I find the culture and pace frustrating at times. I have a good work/life balance as I WFH.

£36k + £10-15k bonus in sales.
wfh 3 days a week
very low stress these days. Rarely take it home with me and am able to switch off, forget about it. Good team and very autonomous.

Would be interested to know what your new job is? I’m in a very stressful job, earning 90k. I’m 54 and think it’s time to step down. Would want to keep working but not sure what. Salary less important but want to be in a low stress job, where I’m amongst people and colleagues.

150k senior local gov job. Stress horrendous- can't wait to retire next year

£50K(ish) Civil Service. WFH four days a week but the hours are variable - 12hr days are not unusual, so I have more flexibility to WFH than others in the same (central) department. But there’s also a fair bit of travel…

Work in Agriculture. 70k+10% bonus plus car. Work from home 3 or 4 days a week. Manage a team of 4.

Stress is variable. If all running well then nice work life balance, usually 8-4 and can pick kids up etc. If work is full on then same hours but I will be working from when kids go to bed until 10pm. But I always take those hours back when things are quieter again.

All in all, I like my job.

£75k civil service senior leadership. High stress currently because I work with unwilling and obstructive people. Moving on soon to a different department!

Aside from that - excellent flexibility and work/life balance, 1 day office/4 at home. Will be the same in my new role.

Are you a brand new teacher?

@Aserena
Pretty sure that poster was taking the piss.....

£65k plus v good public sector pension - plus I can work flexibly around school runs most of the week

Very responsible/technically complex and fast paced job and it can be stressful but I have learnt to manage /keep perspective on things because I have an illness that means stress causes flares. I am also lucky that our CX is very supportive and sensible so you know that issues will be met with understanding. I think the difference between tolerable/intolerable stress often comes down to management and I try and ensure my own team feel supported and that they aren't expected to be superhuman

Civil service, £70,000, stress levels non existent currently. In a very low stress role but finding it unchallenging and not at all motivating. Was much happier at a lower grade on £55k with quite high stress.

(Excellent work life balance though, mostly WFH, very flexible, own my diary- but without motivation I'm not happy!)

30k a year. 30 hours a week Very stressful and mentally draining job,

It's breaking me.

Last night I did full resus on the same 1kg baby 3 times. And no one knows what's causing it. We were 8 nurses short. Often are. Highest level of intensive care setting

I've thought about looking for other jobs. But I cannot imagine doing else so I've joined an agency to do shifts on a local smaller unit for more money. Because there's no overtime available in our trust despite being so short.

Work life balance is better since I dropped my hours but it helps DP works away 8 weeks at a time and then is home for 8 weeks (no work) and picks up the slack and my children are older

£60k professional services but business support role. Low stress, never work overtime. My last role paid about the same but high stress and lots of (unpaid) over time.

22k print finisher. Work/life balance good and no stress.

£18k, SEND teacher, medium-high stress.
(I do get the school holidays off though).

I actually love my job and can cope with the stress of the working day.

What I can’t cope with is the fact that the day is obviously quite mentally draining but then I come home and need to plan lessons and other work which I’m not paid for.

I do get PPA which is protected time to do lesson plans but there is a lot of admin that comes with the job and it’s impossible to get it all done within that time.
If a child is deregulating it is always all hands on deck as students need to be moved, rooms emptied and doors locked etc and it always seems to happen whenever I have PPA.

I hand handed my notice in regrettably but I was heading for a breakdown.
Now I’m wondering whether to get a similar high stress job but for more money or less stress for a similar amount of money.

This thread is really interesting for me.

@Hihosilver123

it's essentially a move from corporate to third sector. It's not a step-down in terms of seniority so won't be entirely without stress but it's being part of a smaller team who are all really committed to the organisations goals - very different from the very political, mildly toxic environment I've been in.

Like you I wanted to focus on working with people and I guess - clichèd as it maybe sounds - doing something that matters. (I will admit to being a bit terrified as it's a big change and I was initially surprised to be offered the role but I'm very excited

Salary 60k, but also receive dividends from shares and a bonus as part of the package. Which takes me into 6 figures.

It’s flexible, I can wfh. The job itself isn’t stressful. I can do the job no issue. The environment is quite stressful for various reasons. But that impacts most of us regardless.

To be honest, job is a bit boring and I am looking for my next move. But my youngest is 12 and still needs some hands on support and the next step will be a big difference in wage but also the expectations of me.

@jkkdiehab

I know I sound very stupid but what is a civil servant job?

I’ve heard it a few times but I don’t actually know what it is or what it does.

@Chippy4me a civil servant is someone who works for central government (as opposed to local government) so the departments like DWP, MOD, Home Office etc. There are about 400,000 civil servants with jobs ranging from HR, policy, admin through to specialists like scientists. Civil servant is a very broad term.

Previous role was admin officer in civil service, 22.5k but I was on slightly less as worked 33 hours. Very stressful as there was just too much work for our small team. Got a temporary promotion to about 26k and although there is stress, it's because there is a high workload or a deadline, not just constant, too much work stress. I am now looking for a new role as the secondment is coming to an end and I don't want to have to go back to my low paid stressful job.

Thank you very much for explaining that 🙂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 here too

More like a retiring one

£28 ish K, 30 hours NHS, very stressful. ITU so lots of very unique skills but not really valued. 30 years as a nurse, night, days, weekends, constant pressure has definitely made me ill.