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)

I might be depressed, to be honest im really past caring anymore. Ive just sort of given up, I watch the world go by now and hope things be will be better next time round.

I am a part-time press officer, working 16 hours a week, and earn £12,000.

Knitted, I can't bear to think of you feeling that way. Mary Wesley and Laura Ingalls started their careers as pensioners, how can you even think of giving up your dreams aged 25?

You need some help sweetheart. It's just not normal to feel so hopeless and defeated by life, especially at your age. Have you spoken to a doctor about how you're feeling?

I agree with you thomas. But I can also remember feeling like this in my 20s with 1, then 2 then 3 small children, having graduated into a recession- everything seemed rather hopeless. With hindsight, I realise that how you react to downturns is crucial in overcoming them. Once I realised that everything went in swings and roundabouts it became easier to be more fatalistic about the downturns.

Knitted, do you think it's worth starting your own thread about this? People often have some extremely good suggestions and are supportive on here when you're feeling down.

Don't forget Annie Proulx, thomas. Didn't publish her first book till she was 47 I think.

KnittedBreast - and there you are - I would swap my salary and job for your youth and future! I daresay that doesn't help if you are in a state, but at 25 I was flopping about doing nothing to further my career or finances! Sort out your health and depression...then you will find a future that is waiting for you.

This thread has inspired me to return to my accountant training!!!

(Currently earn 7.35ph as a doctors receptionist, where i'm lucky enough to have a term time contract!)

it is very very hard though to get careers going in your early 20s, so many graduates etc thinking of my own three and their friends. But it's not hopeless for anyone. It's a mental mind set thing too. If you can't continue the degree you abandoned in the last year which is pity as finishing it would probably help things whatever it is in, then thre will be other things. What are you interested in ?

There is always hope.
Diana Athill is over 90 and writes. I hope I can do all sorts of different things in every decade.

The important thing is to find work which you enjoy and which gives you a standard of living which is acceptable for you

Thats true - good trick if you can achieve it. I have; at age 50, with a PhD and 25 years in my industry, I work ~20 hours pw from home for 31.5K. Some weeks I work way more than that if I'm working on something really interesting (scientific software); some days its waiting for the code to compile and whiling away the time with MN. From time to time small acts of genius may be required

If I'd been ambitious I might have gone for managerial positions and earned more, but I enjoy being in the most back-room of jobs and with time to do other things.

That's very good Grimma, there is nothing better than internal contentment (and good health) although that's not to say that some of us don't get it from more demanding jobs. When I've life coached it's been what has come out most - people who to others might have lots being unhappy and those who have very little who are content although the latter are not likely to seek help I suppose.

Knitted do see your GP.

thomasbodley just notied what you said re GP pensions. Sadly final salary pensions will v v soon be a thing of the past.

£450 per day, six month consulting contract for bank.
I'm not young though, and at 25 was only just starting my career

My income changes depending on what I'm doing. I charge £350 - £500 a day for organisational change and communications training. I have some associates who also train for me and I charge them a percentage of their fee.

I charge £50 per hour for life and career coaching but I enjoy that much more. I do some pro bono work for the voluntaty sector which I also really enjoy. I'd like to do more of this and less of the corporate stuff. I'm looking at taking on non-executive directorships in the next few years.

In addition I also have two start ups on the go - one is a website for home organisation geeks and the other is a company selling my self-designed products. A lot of my income has been diverted to the start ups so I earned about £20k last year. I take most of the school holidays off.

Dh is a consultant actuary and I help him run his practice. I do some teaching for him - training the voluntary sector how to use statistics and how to manipulate their own data. I take a small dividend from his practice - about £20k last year. DH usually charges £1100 per day and only works four days a week, 42 weeks a year. He earns around £150k. He is an expert in a quite small field though.

We live in the North and have a lovely lifestyle. If we lived in London I know our lifestyle would be greatly reduced.

Many moons ago I was an A and E sister. My workload is a lot less stressful now and I can't imagine ever going back.

This thread and my mother have all made me feel alot better about my future , i trained as a nurse 10 years ago at 27 ,so creeping up to the big 40 this year and was feeling a bit stagnant ,even though i do really love the job/ward where i work ,i have been there nearly ten years now. Only work 2 days a week ,due to childcare issues . My mum told me her career really took off after the age of 43 and my youngest will start school then . Also there are many nurses on here who seem to have moved onto much better things

xenia so glad you decided not to divulge ,as ive always had you down as some kick ass meedja/forensic/mi5 dahling with killer heels who has to go to court alot and drive recklessly round the streets of london (through piles of cardboard boxes) ,so i would be devastated if you actually worked for a multi national

On the performance / better paid option point, my orchestra is packed full of people who decided that music wasn't a lucrative enough career (many after music college) and play now mainly for pleasure. I'm one of them, though I decided, sensibly in my case, as I'm nowhere near talented enough, not even to opt for music college.

I actually find it far easier and more enjoyable to apply myself to my job than to practice music (alone, group playing is easier). I suppose learning how to practice over an extended period is part of musical training. And also why I'm not a professional musician. And it helps that I love my job.

I've virtually never posted anywhere without being identified so I'm just a bit careful. I work for myself.

Xenia, if you have five kids (two of whom are twins) I think I know who you are IRL. Your secret is safe with me though. I'd get fired based on what I've posted on this thread .

Everyone knows who Xenia is.

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The warrier princess, heroine I think of lesbians or something.

I know who you are as well, but I am discreet. I do find it a bit frustrating that you lecture us though, given what I know about your background, as so many other women simply are completely denied the advantages you have had despite what they might want to 'choose' for themselves.

Teach music in a 6th form college - 2.5 - 3 days a week [plus concerts, rehearsals, marking, prep etc]. Earn about £12,000 I think..... Never hadf a full year without salary/hours change or maternity leave ir somthing.

Just found the tax man has been taking £120 extra from my pay every month since i started 6 yerars ago so kind of just got a pay rise.....

9k per annum for 25hrs p/w I'm a Practice Administrator with opportunities to advance and also receive a payrise :)

Who is xenia, is she famous?

anyone pm me....

Helenagrace please post your geeky home org website