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)

Probably best to do the honours year then. I stopped studying at 21 and was pretty glad when I did my very last exam.

Daughter just been reading out job ads to me which reminded me of the thread. There are certainly huge differences even within the same types of jobs as to pay.

I am a travel agent do 15 hours a week and bring home around £ 500 every month.

Barbie, management consultancy, project management, interim management and IT consultancy are the other areas where people with law degrees tend to get into. So you may want to think about those. Last one obviously involves more study. Sorry if none of those are helpful! Can you get any help from your university?

Xenia has said exactly what I was going to say on the degree front, which is that from a UK perspective, I would definitely do the honours degree. Sitting in the UK, I know that if your CV came into my company, it would be unlikely to even make it to me because you didn't have an honours degree and the other applicants did.

Personally, I wouldn't give up the opportunity to put yourself in the same position as other applicants by doing Mandarin, as the people who get those jobs are likely to have a far more in depth knowledge of the language through university degrees or ethnically Chinese people etc. It's something you can always pick up at a later stage if you do think it would be useful. My big caveat is the fact that I have a UK perspective on everything so don't take what I say as gospel!

In my 20s, I was working and studying simultaneously and that was hard enough as it was then. I am not sure that even my infamously deep energy reserves would have stretched to priotising my children, holding down a job and studying. Well done you.

Yes, it must be very hard. I was doing a bit of studying when I was working and had baby number 1 and I gave that up but in part because the job I then moved to was in a different area from that bit of study. Newly qualified US law firm £100,000 (daughter just read out to me), much higher than nwqly qualified £59k UK firms in London but even that is a lot higher than most say newly qualified teachers so some types of jobs you will find overall most people earn more but then very very few people have the requirements to get them whereas most of us can clean a lavatory. Even so I'd say work smart rather than just hard although often easier said than done and plenty of new graduates cannot even get jobs with no pay or working in bars at present although I do think things are slightly improving in London at the moment.

If you want to work for a hedge fund, we are talking about an Oxbridge PhD in an applied science, economics or social science very heavy on stats, and the ability to get down and dirty with the data so you can really make it talk. You don't have to have some vague, obscure black-art-type ability. The work is not really that hard compared to other things people do on here. That's just what those who work in finance want you to believe.

Private Physio earn about 24k working 2 days a week. Also run a business and earn about 8k from that putting in about 2 hours a week.

Dh works in IT And earns £100k.

We are both self employed- less than 2 years so we can't get a mortgage!

I'm an engineering graduate who works in finance, I definitely get paid more than I would do as an engineer ( have given my salary under another name below).

Whoever was asking about not doing an honours year in Scotland, it's pointless to not do the final year, you need an honours degree.

OK so I'm qualified but would need to brush up on stats!
DO you think there is an age cut off?
DO you really think the training schemes are looking to employ someone with kids though?

(I have been working F/T in competative/academic field as well though...)

I have repeatedly thought about leaving my profession over the years, there are even organisations set up to help people who want to leave do so. I have the number for one somewhere maybe I will actually do it.

It's interesting that you all think it is very stats focussed I would have thought more analysis plus feeling/ability to justify why one co will go somewhere and others wont if you see what I mean, a computer can crunch numbers. Thereagain I would have thought maths important for dealers whereas maybe it's less so now.....

trixy !!!

although looking at cambridge statistics it looks hard to get into

You called?!?!

brill!! No i was trying to work out what your other moniker was but i think i've sussed it!

Used to earn 15k as a teacher then quit. Earned 13k designing games for a while before it got raised to match everyone else working there to 15k. Then got made redundant just after a period of bad health and now I am a SAHM. :)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11350383

That survey last year showed that a lot of people had no idea what others earn.

FTSE-100 chief executive earns £2,100 and people think they earn £118k

Premiership footballer actual £1,700m, people think £365,000
Bond trader £225k and people think they earn £58k

Prime minister earns £142.5m and people think h e earns £119000
Secondary school head earns 73k people think: $43k
Train driver £40k but people think £28k
Social worker £30k/ £28
Nurse £29k/ £29
Airline cabin attendant £23k/£25k