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If you are fully WFH (or almost) and earn around £50k, what do you do?

367 replies

YouCouldUseAFlakeOrTwo · 18/10/2023 12:07

My job feels like a set of golden handcuffs at the moment - decent-ish salary, lots of WFH, decent-ish pension, plenty of annual leave, nice people - but I am bored to tears and fed up. I've been working in the same area for over 15 years and really, really need a change. However at the same time I feel a bit paralysed because of the above benefits. I know, for example, that I absolutely want to maintain WFH and I need to maintain a similar salary, at least for the next few years.

I have job-searched but I don't really know what I'm looking for, sector-wise. I tend to stick to what I know but obviously that just brings up the same kind of thing I'm doing now, which I want to get away from!

So I'm looking for random inspiration. If you've got a fully or mainly WFH job and earn around £50k, what do you do? What's out there?

OP posts:
MrsNK28 · 18/10/2023 23:13

£76K now. WFH almost everyday except monday have to go to office. I’m senior UI/UX designer in game company. Basically i’m making mobile game.

fun working condition, rarely doing overtime. Love my job.

keffie12 · 18/10/2023 23:15

My eldest son is wfh on £65k a year plus 15% annual bonus.

He is a senior team leader, front end software engineer to give it its full title.Women do work in this area, too.

Maybe you need to look at retraining, open uni, or the like if you're bored

peonym · 18/10/2023 23:17

In-house lawyer. I earn a little more than that (£67k exc bonus) and it's 4/5 days at home per week, very flexible start and finish times. My previous job was a shitshow so I'm delighted with this one lol.

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CyberCritical · 18/10/2023 23:18

Abcdefg1234567abcdefg · 18/10/2023 22:26

This thread is so interesting to read although I really don't know what most of these job roles involve. I'd love to know what people actually do daily in these jobs (in lay terms). Ops? Civil service? Various management roles? IT jobs? Software engineers?
What is a civil cervant and what do they do? What are the different departments?
I assume these jobs with £50k wages are based in the south... Are these wages possible in the north or England for those who don't live in cities?
Are those earning £50k (+) in stressful roles with long hours that aren't flexible for people with young families?
It would be great to get a better understanding of your job roles and the qualifications required, if you don't mind sharing more detail.

Location: East Mids
Role: Information Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance
Salary:£95k + upto 20% annual bonus
WFH: 99.9% if the time, very occasional face to face meetings about 3 times a year

What do I actually do

  • lots of meetings 😂
  • accountable for ensuring we have a fully functional management systems in place covering Information Security, Environmental Sustainability, Quality, Privacy, BCDR, IT Service Management, Social values, Corporate Governance etc
  • Development of policies, compliance strategy, training/awareness
  • Risk management framework
  • chairing various committees
-participating in industry working groups
  • consulting on Projects/implementations/business strategy
  • obtaining external/independent certifications for the business to remain compliant with client requirements and make us more competitive
  • remaining current with all applicable regulatory frameworks and legislations globally across every jurisdiction

That's the core but then just whatever else I'm needed for, wobbly clients who need reassurance, security/privacy incidents or breaches, bids for new business.......

Giantcausewayside · 18/10/2023 23:19

CBT therapist, earn just under £57 k in NHS, used to work fully remote now go into “office” one day a week. It’s a great job, if you like intellectual challenge and have emotional resilience, but is very demanding due to exposure to difficult content. Need a postgrad in CBT or Psychological therapies, so not a quick career change.

SoShallINever · 18/10/2023 23:20

I have friends and family working from home on this salary, they include:
Business intelligence analyst
Software engineer
Hairdresser
Manual handling course designer
Compliance manager
Garden designer
Disability sales

Saurus72 · 18/10/2023 23:21

Marketing & digital, manage team, quite stressful sometimes because of environment, great team, excellent pension and good benefits, rarely work overtime, c.70k, go into office usually once a week which is my choice - could go in more/less often if I wanted. Feel the least excited I’ve ever been about my job but the best all around situation considering where I am in my life and my home life which is great. So overall feel very fortunate to be in the position I am. I’m anticipating one more job change in c.2-3 years that will hopefully take me to retirement.

isthatmyage · 18/10/2023 23:24

Okies I'll go - WFH 99.9% of the time...occasional travel. Basic £122k, plus car, plus benefits, plus 25% bonus - teams meeting and deliverables, but like OP similarly bored.....today I had 8 emails! Role is Global Finance Director...superb team guess we're fully functioning and just not that busy 😊

Allthorpe100 · 18/10/2023 23:28

Customer Service Manager WFH fully earn 55k

CyberCritical · 18/10/2023 23:28

isthatmyage · 18/10/2023 23:24

Okies I'll go - WFH 99.9% of the time...occasional travel. Basic £122k, plus car, plus benefits, plus 25% bonus - teams meeting and deliverables, but like OP similarly bored.....today I had 8 emails! Role is Global Finance Director...superb team guess we're fully functioning and just not that busy 😊

That sounds dreamy to me right now, I get about 150 emails a day, half of those I can use rules to auto file (or delete), another quarter I just need to skim and be aware of but there are roughly 30-40 a day that I actually do need to do something with.

ShakespeareInTurmoil · 18/10/2023 23:30

Press Officer for a specialist insurer. I go in once a week most of the time but it’s not compulsory. £54k + 10pc bonus. Mid-seniority, no direct reports, decent pension but the private medical isn’t great.

HedgehogB · 18/10/2023 23:47

Market intelligence lead in a ftse 100 company here, wfh 4 days out of 5, great benefits, final salary pension (one of a handful left), volunteering leave, caregivers leave, 1 year paid maternity etc etc and earn 68k. Did an English degree then a marketing diploma in early 2000’s. Been there years though so my industry experience is valued, fortunately and they are very flexible with me. Downside? Too much to do every day, overstretched, team too small, firefighting a lot. Could have left and progressed my career a lot further perhaps …. Probably wouldn’t change it though. Have raised kids , been divorced, remarried, been sick long term on two occasions …. all while working for this company. Child sickness very well understood etc. Diamond of a company really.

KnickerlessParsons · 19/10/2023 00:11

I'm a Delivery Manager and earn around £50k. I wfh but go into the office about 5 miles away once a week.

CrapGoat · 19/10/2023 00:39

Following. I am in tutoring (adults) freelance. Decent pay but so much work. I HATE it. Grin

Icanttellyouanything · 19/10/2023 00:45

University lecturer. About £54k. Only have to go in when I'm teaching so about 50 days this academic year.
48 days leave and a decent (but not as good as it was) pension.
24 days study leave each year.
Are there jobs teaching or training what you do now? I'm not a traditional academic but found a job where they wanted me for my professional experience rather than the usual academic/research background.

CrapGoat · 19/10/2023 00:48

@pitterypattery00 that's the role I want! I have certain qualifications that would be suitable, but I have been out of academia for so long, I don't think I could possibly get back in-it strikes me as the sort of thing you get into young (fresh out of uni?) and stay in.

CrapGoat · 19/10/2023 00:50

Same to @Icanttellyouanything . I'm a tutor of adults freelance now. Would love to do it at university level. And I am sure it'd be less stressful than further education-some of the companies I work for/with are INCREDIBLY disorganised. I could bore you all week with it but for instance, some students I teach had a mock exam a few weeks ago, on a Tuesday. Up until the Monday, I had not seen said exam. I had no idea what was on it. I was in touch with management for weeks asking about it and kept being fobbed off. That isn't one of the worst things but I don't want to risk being recognised!

EveSix · 19/10/2023 01:04

Reading this makes me want to weep.
I'd chew an employer's arm off to have those conditions and benefits ‐for a fraction of the salary 😭I'm a primary school teacher (25 years +) and think people WFH, or even just a bit flexibly / hybrid, are beautifully and uniquely blessed.
Best of luck, OP.

RosiePeel · 19/10/2023 02:14

Yes totally know how you feel. I am noticing that many jobs won't let you in on these conditions so it is hard to escape when you have it good (I earn 60k, FTE, 4 days a week mostly from home - lawyer).

askmenow · 19/10/2023 02:23

WonderingAboutBabies · 18/10/2023 13:14

I work for the NHS in Analytics. Band 8a plus London weighting so about £58k. Fully remote.

So that shows the wastage in the NHS...£58k for sitting on your a..se! Get a proper job that contributes to society.

Anybelle · 19/10/2023 03:58

Self employed trader. Self taught, no relevant qualifications. Very large earning potential.

keffie12 · 19/10/2023 05:09

CyberCritical · 18/10/2023 23:18

Location: East Mids
Role: Information Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance
Salary:£95k + upto 20% annual bonus
WFH: 99.9% if the time, very occasional face to face meetings about 3 times a year

What do I actually do

  • lots of meetings 😂
  • accountable for ensuring we have a fully functional management systems in place covering Information Security, Environmental Sustainability, Quality, Privacy, BCDR, IT Service Management, Social values, Corporate Governance etc
  • Development of policies, compliance strategy, training/awareness
  • Risk management framework
  • chairing various committees
-participating in industry working groups
  • consulting on Projects/implementations/business strategy
  • obtaining external/independent certifications for the business to remain compliant with client requirements and make us more competitive
  • remaining current with all applicable regulatory frameworks and legislations globally across every jurisdiction

That's the core but then just whatever else I'm needed for, wobbly clients who need reassurance, security/privacy incidents or breaches, bids for new business.......

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A senior team leader, front-end software engineer, is as follows

1/ You turn on your laptop/PC/mobile/tablet, etc. You open the web and click on a page.

What you see on the front of each page is what my eldest develops.

Each tech firm has its own specialist area.

So my son has worked for 2 firms who specialise in hospitality, leisure and sports.

Another was in online betting and games/gaming. His favourite was AI. That firm laid off most of their staff last year due to losing a contract and the projected recession. He was one of the last ones in so....

His latest company works in the development of online health websites, with anything from medical, alternative medicine, sexual health, education of in schools, etc, and so on.

Incidently, my youngest is also a software coding engineer.

Same type of job. However, he is responsible for all the coding for site development. My youngest was and is extremely good at maths to do this job. He works back end sorting the coding so sites like my son builds can be built.

They both have done 3 years at uni, which includes a specialist year. He is roughly on the same money as my eldest. I hope that makes sense

Bartat · 19/10/2023 05:15

MaggieBsBoat · 18/10/2023 12:20

Remote operations director. I earn more but I have a team of people earning around 50k that all work fully remote. General Ops stuff. What do you do? What transferable skills do you have? More importantly, what would you like to do?

I don't even understand this! what sector do you work in? What do you do in the day? What qualifications and skills do you need?

MamaBear4ever · 19/10/2023 06:24

Mostly WFH operations lead for a research network. Some of its mundane but benefits way out way the boredom and in a very comfortable position. Have recently become a voluntary trustee for a local charity to give me fresh challenge and meet new faces.

Singlespies · 19/10/2023 06:44

I work from home. I am an engineer and earn just over 70k. Job relatively stress free but only because I have 25 years experience in engineering. It's not an entry level job.

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