If you earn over £60k, what do you do?

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I’m a midwife and truly fed up. It’s my passion, but too much stress for nowhere near enough pay.

I would like to significantly increase my earning potential. I wouldn’t mind retraining, or doing something somewhat related.

It needs to be something I can do part time (e.g. 4 days a week or similar) as I’m a single parent.

I wouldn’t even mind being self employed.

Please help!

I think you're looking for something that doesn't exist op. Usually people on £60k+ have had long careers and climbed the ladder, building experience to get where they are.
Often higher earning jobs are not suited to part time hours either, unless you've established yourself and earned the privilege.

I'd be interested to hear if these jobs exist though as I'd quite like one for myself.

@TartanMammy has it nailed for most people.
Although, as a midwife, you may be able to transition into the pharmaceutical industry, which is what I did with my professional degree. I am now on over 100k and work very flexibly. But, I have been in the industry for over 20 years.

I'm an academic and I earn considerable money on the side doing consultancy in my field of expertise.

Civil service. Joining the department of health and social care seems like an obvious entry route and I don’t think you’d need to do any retraining.

I could earn the sum you are aiming for but I have been in my profession for well over 25 years, so have built my skills and reputation and completed additional qualifications. The job I do is extremely pressurised and stressful and I work very long hours, easily 12+ per day. I don’t imagine this is what you are looking for.

Tech. There are plenty of get into tech courses or bootcamps that you could do and starting salaries are high. You also don’t need to be technical (know how to code) in tech- eg you could be a project manager, product manager, business analyst, ect. You could take contract positions that can be more flexible if you need reduced hours of days

Are you interested in nhs leadership at all? Midwifery can be 8A and 8B salaries which are also pretty much all 9-5 type jobs (ie not shift work).

That’s why I said earning potential.

I am not expecting to just earn that amount immediately.

I am 25 so have a lot of work left to do in my lifetime.

I'm on £75k and it's taken me 20 years to get there, climbing the ladder incrementally. I'm paid much more than market rate in a low cost of living area because my CV is so strong at what I do. It's not possible to career change into this line of work unfortunately and I think that's sadly the case with many careers these days.

I made it into the £60k income bracket with my last promotion at work. I'm an academic and have been working full-time since getting my degree. Firstly in industry, when my first years salary was £14k!!!, then did my doctorate part-time, then into a university post. It's been hard and a long slog.
As you say, you're at the start of your career. Do a post-grad degree in whatever you want to specialise in within your field. Do the leadership courses too, and take any experience you can get. I would also see if going into the admin/management side of the NHS is better for climbing the career ladder e.g. joint health and social care partnership roles.

I would also look at private midwifery and similar roles like NCT antenatal classes, baby signing, baby massage etc. It's probably the state of the NHS that is getting in the way of you loving your job.

Apply to graduate medical school? You'd earn more as a doctor.

Partnerships Manager in the insurance industry with over 25 years experience.

I'm on about £75k full time equivalent but work four days and I'm in a profession in a senior role with almost 20 years experience

By background, I’m an academic. I don’t work currently due to ill health, but colleagues at my level working FT earn probably in the £60k range. I have a PhD and 20 years of experience in the field though.

Dh is a director of a business in the trades, probably makes £100k a year. Again though, business degree and experience and 12+ years now building this particular business. He was probably making about £800 a month when he started.

Can you work in the private sector as a midwife, does that pay more?

Project management seems a good one but you would need to build up to better positions over time. Two people close to me do this and earn £70-85k (but have built up to this over 20 and 10 year careers respectively). Neither started off with relevant qualifications.

I’m on the lower rungs of academia and don’t earn that much even with a PhD but I admit I could have been more ambitious with my career choices.

What about a private doula or night nurse/nanny.

Project management is also a great suggestion but would involve starting low and working up the ladder.

& the way things are going would be likely to graduate without a job..!

Local authority and I earn more than that. Look at going into public health in a local authority. The senior strategists are on well over 60k, the strategists are on 45+ and there’s lots of room for promotion.

It took me until I was 46 to earn £60k.
i have a degree and masters in a relevant subject, i work in a private consultancy and have over 20 years sector experience and a chartership with the professional institution.
decent benefits package including private medical cover and small car allowance but crap employer mention contributions compared to the public sector.

The people I know that earned over that though many have just taken early retirement among friends and relatives.

Corporate lawyer
Senior University Academics
Surgeon
Research scientist for big pharma
Chartered Engineers
IT specialist works for an investment bank

DH has 2 friends that are city boys, they earn the most I’m not sure how much now but one was on 250k not inc his bonus. They all have doctorates in a science from Cambridge and all around 55.

I'm a foster carer.
I do get paid a lot but I am completely invested in supporting and improving the lives of the children I look after.

Quantity Surveyor but if you wanted to retrain in that you would literally start at the bottom on an apprentice salary probably on half the minimum wage.

My first year as an apprentice my salary was £8,000 a year in 2006. Now earn £75k a year.

Chartered engineer with heading for 20 years experience, these days working in a senior technical role for a regulator.

Previously worked stupidly hours and vile shifts on sites. That experience means I can do what I do today, on a very civilised part time arrangement.