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To ask you all how much you get paid?

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UnderWorkedOverPaid · 20/02/2011 11:36

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)

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Xenia · 26/02/2011 19:55

Very true. I do various things and I've adapted. I hope we can all give our chidlren a range of skills and hobbies, hopefully good academic grounding and education, a robustness and confidence too as well as all the other stuff that matters like endurance, ability to work hard with little sleep and reasonable fitness and all the other things that count in job interviews and in running businesses.

mrsgetonwithit · 26/02/2011 20:15

xenia.................what about teaching your child to have fun, be reckless and have a laugh.?

mamatomany · 26/02/2011 20:55

xenia.................what about teaching your child to have fun, be reckless and have a laugh.?

Do you need to teach those things, I found they came quite naturally it was curbing it that had be taught.

Xenia · 26/02/2011 20:56

Definitely. A sense of humour is something we all want. There is even the air port test - woudl you like to be stranded at Moscoe air port with this new graduate for 20 hours. Would they have good repartee, woudl they make you laugh, is their chat good? Or are they as dull as ditch water. It's an important part of life. God save me from dull people.

Also reckless - I am successful in large part because I'm prepared to take risks others aren't. Too many women are too cautious so they never get anywhere - although I would not call it reckless. I would call it being able to take risk, measured considered risk.

thinkingbig · 26/02/2011 20:58

I earn about 52K for 30 hrs a week. Am about to chuck it in and start my own business though so this time next year, who knows? (gulp)

Goober · 26/02/2011 21:00

Care assistant.
£7.40PH.

Xenia · 26/02/2011 21:34

(Moscow obviously )

mrsgetonwithit · 27/02/2011 08:05

Do you need to teach those things, I found they came quite naturally it was curbing it that had be taught.

why would you want to curb having fun, having a laugh and being reckless?

LargeGlassofRedPlease · 27/02/2011 08:12

37K (top of pay scale) teacher + 5K extra for head of dept

Bonsoir · 27/02/2011 08:36

I would be very interested to know what the comparative average salary looks like if the answers on this thread were divided into those who are working in the national economy and those who are working in the global economy.

Bonsoir · 27/02/2011 08:38

"Kids at school cannot predict which sectors will be high earning in 25-50 years' time, because fashions change and jobs go up and down in status. It's law and finance in vogue at the moment - it will be something else entirely in the future, I wager (eg green energy scientists, perhaps?)"

BoffinMum - what is important is to equip our children with a lot of transferable skills and the ability to work in different cultures/languages. Global mobility is increasingly the KSF for high earnings.

Ormirian · 27/02/2011 09:20

Bloody hell! Some of you really are minted! Good to see so many women doing so amazingly well . To be fair I don't know anyone male or female who earns anything like that. But most of the people I know live in the sw so pay is relatively low. It's making me a bit anxious for dd who is bright as a button , hard-working, dedicated but has no idea what she wants to do. Apart from look after horses Hmm

Xenia · 27/02/2011 09:34

Orm, it's fascinating. The TV programme about How People get Jobs interviewed some very poor chidlren in the NE. They also knew no one in high paid careers. It was just off their radars and then if you take other groups of teenagers it's the opposite - everyone is doing XYZ well paid job and what we need is to ensure that those born in poorer families where the concept of a woman on £200k or £500k a year is totally alien unless she becomes a TV star or he becomes a top footballer, is not so unlikely for them.

My daughters in their teends were very into their horses. They then spent time with the grooms there and learned about their lives, sharing small rules, the minimum wage pay if they were very lucky, the inability to go out to the pub because of lack of pay and then looked at the richer (not all rich of course but some) livery owners and I suppose because they were exposed to all kinds of different people like that they could make decisions based on the information they had. You could tell her a horse costs X. If you wants to own her own and keep it she will need Y. These are the jobs that earn that. (Actually some of the richest people I know live in the SW but they must he hiding away - it does seem a much more socially divisive area than bits of London where people of all kinds rich and poor in some areas meet)

Interesting points on where we move our children to or live and how that affects their ambition and career decisions. The gorgeous country areas the parents spend ages of dreaming too could mean the child moving to an area where the only fun is drugs at the village green bus stop, one local comp, no mixture of great schools and very very few jobs. Parents get the country middle age they love, toddlers have fun in fields but child's life in some senses ruined (if ruin means low pay which of course it doesn't).

breathing · 27/02/2011 09:48

im capped because I am the safe earner in my family.

FrameyMcFrame · 27/02/2011 09:54

£24 per hour and I work 12 hrs a week.
No paid holidays.
No paid sick leave.
No paid maternity.

But it's not bad as I get a good amount of money for short hours.

MarshaBrady · 27/02/2011 09:55

Yes I agree with the country thing. My parents moved to the most remote area and everyone tries to leave. Luckily they sent us to a good school, then good university. But in a way it is a hinderance, because a lot of energy is used to move upwards. (and by remote I mean not UK). Of course as a small child it is wonderful.

shitmagnet · 27/02/2011 09:58

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MarshaBrady · 27/02/2011 09:58

Shitmagnet what did you do?

breathing · 27/02/2011 10:01

On the basis of this, I would encourage my children to go into business/law kind of careers

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breathing · 27/02/2011 10:03

bonsoir I dont agree with mobility and the KSF. I was hitting the ceiling on the ksf scale ages ago and wasnt equipped for any huge move to anpother industry

MarshaBrady · 27/02/2011 10:04

ah I think it's better to enjoy what you do. Good work to earn so much at the time in any case.

Ormirian · 27/02/2011 10:06

Well we're not that remote! Fwiw it never occurred to my parents that we'd stay in the area- they assumed we'd go away to university and not come back. But moved back to a different part and db ended up in deepest N Wales Grin.

I assume the same for my dc tbh although we are in a good area fir ds1's chosen career.

shitmagnet · 27/02/2011 10:09

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breathing · 27/02/2011 10:13

I would encourage them to take their trut path but would also like to know they are suitably paid and feel they are valued and paid their true worth (in monetary terms only here). It is a constant source of annoyance to me that my pay doesnt reflect my years of experience, study and hard work. So, if its a good income they are after, Id advise them. If thats not a factor, Id advise otherwise.

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