To ask you all how much you get paid?

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Name-Change if you want to - I have. AIBU to be curious what other people earn?

I am a nurse. Qualified 6 years. Work 30 hours a week.

I earn about 25k (with unsocial hours etc added in)

about 100k USD, oil engineer tax free and free accomodation, utilities and fuel. Used to be an NHS nurse.

Nothing. I haven't been able to work due to ill health for about five years. I'm not entitled to anything either. I did claim for DLA at the beginning and was refused. Had I known I would be out of work for so long I would have appealed and chased up other routes. But I was too ill to manage! Having previously worked as a volunteer benefits adviser I was also concerned about being trapped by a disability benefit.

Never mind, I am well enough to look for work now and that is all that matters. Sadly I have now been out of the labour market for such a long time it's not easy. And I live in the West Country where there aren't a whole heap of spare jobs. I think I have an opening for a suitable, local, part-time job (to ease me back in) in the few months.
GissaJob, please :o

thomasbodley you are having a laugh about NHS pensions right? dont believe all the crud you read in the papers.
By the way i dont have an issue with folks like yourself who earn alot more than me ,you do a job i couldnt and vice versa .

Probably because most people have got some sort of qualification or other. If you do that, you are probably less likely to earn below the 40th centile, and you're probably also a bit more resilient in times of national economic stagnation.

Can I point out that you have no idea what jobs are necessarily going to make megabucks decades later? When I started training as a university lecturer they earned a lot more than teachers, now they earn a lot less - there was no way of knowing that would happen, and so rapidly too. Doctors used to make a good living too, but many of them now have to work p/t or cobble together locum shifts, as we have seen on here, so that's not as predictable as it was either. Society is simply not as ordered as it once was and luck probably plays a large part in success.

NHS

Mental Health Nurse.

approx 26-27k with enhancements. I also do extra bank shifts which give me about extra 5-6k per year.

I suppose if you earn nothing and nor does your husband you might not be attracted to this thread.

As for doing what you like you can do it as a hobby. My chidlren's father saw countless excellent musicians over the years who were probably all th best in their school but they can't all pursue solo careers and they end up teaching largely untalented pupils at £X an hour. Same with actors - most end up waiting tables etc. It's perfectly easy to keep your best interest as a hobby. I am pretty good at music . singing etc and it wouldn't be wrong to say I could haev made it a career or tried but it's been so much better as a fun hobby than trying to make a living at it. I can still sing every day. In fact you can although I haven't sponsor concerts etc if you make a lot. In a sense you get the power with the money to pursue the hobby better.

I still stick by pick what work you love adn then it's not a chore. If you can love it and earn a lot then that' great. I've been lucky. I also agree with the reinvention comments above - quite al ot of us will have done various different things. It keeps things interesting.

So for our children get a range of skills and the best qualifications you can so you've lots to fall back on if things go badly as they do for many of us over a 40 year career. Nurse to was it oil or engineering above was one of the more interesting changes.

we get about 230 quid a week

WAGES need not be a taboo subject. (they are because england is so unfair and has to be secretive about the unfairness)

Has Dave Cameron posted in yet? we may even get a B/wanker on this site. cheers "gabby"

PS I think Mrs logan may be back on radio today. She may post in on wages Nickname? She may go for "footiedaughter"

onedge what do you do ? am intruiged?

boffinmum - most people that I know who earn a fair wedge have morphed their careers, changing as the economic climate changed.

DH's legal career has moved through various phases, making money during the rise of Britpop, then the dotcom bubble, now IT (particularly abroad).

I've made a fair bit of cash these last few years from blogging and social media, but the arse has now dropped out of this and I'll be wrapping them up. I'm already setting in motion other projects.

We need to get this across to our children. Change is nothing to be afraid of. It keeps things fresh and allows you to follow the work.

Do you mean me, Xenia?

DH and I both earn - full-time. It's just not true to equate the kind of pleasure/worth you get out of a hobby, and the kind you get from a career. I know people who do my sort of thing as a hobby. They very rarely add anything whatsoever to the subject and they tend to do very poor work, even if they were once quite promising. If someone's happy being third-rate at what they're most interested in, that is fine. But it should be recognized that 'do it as a hobby' isn't a sensible solution for everyone.

i work in a call centre (which bores me to tears) 34.5hrs over 4 days, £17,000 + C. £6000 in bonus.
but do have fantastic benefits mat leave etc. company currently paying for DS to have waterbabies swimming lessons
otherwise i wouldn't have lasted 6yrs in this job.

Good luck boffin. But business instict is not everones game. (Thankfully)

Probably largely in the genes. (It was in my family.) "Gabby"

Very little for what I do but work for a charity in a fairly influential role which I love. Fortunately DH earns enough to put him in the 50% tax bracket so I can afford to. I'd never not work though, my brain would rot.

I posted earlier on this thread under a username that I'm readily identifiable by in RL and so have withdrawn it - here is is again!

I'm a GP doing 28hrs/week on 35k. 5 year degree and multiple post grad quals. I left hospital medicine as it's easier to work part time as a GP.

Novice - if you're still here. I went to bed last night, sorry!

A lot of salaried GPs are female as so many women follow their DHs jobs geographically- it's much easier to change practices if you're salaried. As a self employed GP you can also end up out of pocket by taking mat leave; you have to employ a locum to replace you while you are off. Also the self employed GPs (the partners) normally take more responsibility for the running of the practice and some people don't want this when juggling childcare.

At the moment about £52,000. I get my rent paid so it doesn't all come in cash.

I'd never not work though, my brain would rot.

This is right up there with I work hard for my money in the 'Phrases guaranteed to annoy people' category, isn't it?

Some of the SAHM/W I know are amongst the most well-read, well-informed people, interesting people I've ever met. Largely because they have time to read books, go to the theatre, visit museums, learn languages etc. If you have the money to live that life, why shouldn't you?

Because it's just SO intellectually stimulating to work in an office moving people and paper about?

BoffinMum Probably because most people have got some sort of qualification or other. If you do that, you are probably less likely to earn below the 40th centile, and you're probably also a bit more resilient in times of national economic stagnation.

Not sure about that. Degrees are ten a penny now and are no guarantee of decent earnings.

Xenia It's perfectly easy to keep your best interest as a hobby. I am pretty good at music . singing etc and it wouldn't be wrong to say I could haev made it a career or tried but it's been so much better as a fun hobby than trying to make a living at it. I can still sing every day. In fact you can although I haven't sponsor concerts etc if you make a lot. In a sense you get the power with the money to pursue the hobby better.

No. It does frustrate me that people think being a professional entertainer is something you can fit around working hours. It isn't. IT IS A JOB IN ITSELF. There is alot of research/prep/admin/sales etc. involved and when I perform I leave the house at 7pm and often return after 2am. If I worked a full time office job as well I wouln't be able to gig. End of (have tried it!).

You cannot say that you could've had a career in singing because you haven't tried it. It is way harder than it looks.

It is innate. If you were genuinely a VERY good siinger (not just local choir/tunes in the shower), I doub't you'd be able to resist the pull of performing tbh.

Rant over.

Bumpsoon I can well imagine pay and pensions are not distributed equally across the NHS. However, several members of my family are doctors and they all get final salary pensions (at the moment; I realise Lord Hutton is determined to end that). My Dad (retired GP) receives nearly £50k per year in pension payments. Do you know what my projected pension is going to be, on current payments? £4k annually .

30k for a three day week - I'm a teacher and job share a middle management post. Feel like I do a full time job in three days though as work doesn't stop just because you're not there two days. Not moaning, just an observation. It was my choice after all.

xenia what sort of jobs would you encourage your dcs to do?

Work in childcare and earn £37k a year-that's 50hr week. Currently studying towards second degree. OH is a courier, earns £24k.We have 5 investment properties which brings us £320 a month extra after mortgage is paid off.

The expression 'work-life balance' sets my teeth on edge, how about people for whom life is all about work, just to survive? It's such a privileged saying, in my humble opinion. (I work for a development organisation helping kids in unimagineable poverty)

I know it takes a lot of time (and I've been paid to sing a good few times but that's different from making enough to live on from it, I accept that). My point was that why not do less of the hobby, the art, the music or whatever and keep it as a hobby and do an interestnig day job you love that pays well too and that plenty of people do manage that and it's quite a nice compromise.

I suppose so - but then again, why bother compromising for money? You only have one life.

I accept it depends exactly what the compromise is - my dad would have loved to be an academic but ended up working in industry but writing academic papers and doing partnerships with the local university where he supervises their students. If you're lucky enough to have that sort of compromise available, I agree it'd be great to go for it.

What I think is less realistic is what nine suggested about doing a lucrative job until 50 then expecting to just pick up a hobby and get a career's worth of enjoyment out of it - you just won't.

I am 53 years old, run a voluntary sector organisation, work f/t plus on a salary of £45k. No pension contributions or other perks. Pay has only reached this level for the last 5 or 6 years, so have v little in savings or time to build a pension.

DH earns £28k. We live and work in London

We do OK, but although I love my field and have always looked for job satisfaction, I am encouraging the DC to have a more hard-headed outlook., and look for financial prospects as well as fulfillment.