To ask your occupation and how much you earn....

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Just being nosey!

Program/ grants manager for a private charitable foundation which focuses on expansion capital. I earn £35k for a 20 hr week which is a good deal as its really interesting and very unstressful. Unfortunately it's one of those random jobs that are very very hard to get into, because there arent many private foundations and it requires an unusual skill set of investment and charity experience. If you want to do it you basically have to do lots of management level volunteering whilst holding down your investment job. That was the hard bit. Some people go into it via CSR.

NHS nurse, £250,000 p/a, a company BMW and a platinum plated pension - retiring at 35.

I was on 54k + bonus as a paralegal/lawyer/trainee (which, with hindsight, was blardy good for a 20something nobody) - quit my job (at a stupid time, before a very generous christmas bonus) now earn nothing whatsoever as a student (medicine)- nobody should be a doctor for the money, I know anaesthetists on 29k. I had to accept my decision was not a financial one I could have made partner at my firm and been on crazy silly money. I won't make anything unless I become consultant ,in another 10 years plus

Interesting thread

I'm a Management Accountant and on£40k plus bonus for full time, but I currently do 3 days a week so £24k.

I did earn more pre DC but this job is very flexible, not particularly stressful and I rarely have to work outside my hours of 9-6. It can be a little dull but overall I think I am very lucky.

HLTA in an independent school for kids with SN and challenging behaviour. 14k. 37.5h/w. school hols off but invariably spend time in school unpaid.

do my job because I love it, ill never make my millions doing it

I don't live in the uk but by current exchange rate I earn about £45k pa - if I make my bonus I'll get an extra £5-8k.

I am a Senior Brand Manager.

I'm a youth worker - not in UK but works out to £47K

I am surprised at how low salaries are! I am a sahm now, when I left my permanent job in IT in 2005 I was earning £38,000 (took time off then earned daily as a consultant, about £400 a day).
It seems that salaries have not kept up with the times! It's no wonder people are struggling.

Human Resources (HR) Manager. Currently part time, would be on 30k if full time. I've been in HR 9 years worked up from intern level on less than NMW.

Need the post grad CIPD qualification to work your way up the ladder, which was 2-4 years part time study around work, costing anything from 5k at a Uni to 15k completing remotely with a private firm. I will at some point top up with a Masters (another 2k for 16 months work)

Hours are ok, you manage your own time. I've watched HR people "look" busy but if you dig deeper, they're not organised enough and / or spend too much time deciding or having meetings about meetings instead of taking some accountability and making a decision.

As a HR Consultant, which is kind of what I do now (started business last year) I would charge around £25-40 per hour depending on case/project. As the business is in infancy, I'm doing freebies/networking helping on MN I secured this lesser paid part time employed job to keep me in the market (after having dd) and work out if a standalone HR role is what I like/want to do. If I went back full time now, I could earn around 37k. The hours and flexibility mean loads at the min, so earning less than I'm worth iyswim but there isn't many part time roles that come up.

I work FT 40hrs. I get £16,600 per annum. Dp gets about £9k stacking shelves...

Getorf I don't think I have ever seen anyone on here mention procurement before. Congrats on new role.

I am a senior category manager in procurement
I do 29 hours a week and get paid £43k for it. The work is incredibly dull and I do not enjoy it one bit- tht horrible Sunday night feeling every evening-but I value my job massively because I think I am quite good at it, the pay is fab for the hours and minimal responsibility and my employers are very flexible (as am I in coming in at odd hours /travelling if they news me to etc.

Head of procurement is much more exciting I think, the strategy and business management stuff is what I really enjoy doing but I neither have the time nor the support from my boss to progress (last three appraisals have said "bigrubberplant had said shed really love to move up but she knows that being part time means she won't be c

considered for a promotion.

Sorry for trigger finger!

'I'm surprised this hasn't lured marriedinwhite out of her exile.'

Where has marriedinwhite gone? I missed that.

I can't believe someone called me a pimp because I work in procuremnet

Bigrubber it's one of those funny type of roles isn't it. People don't really know what you do - my daughter thinks my job is like chandler's from friends. And because I work in outsourcing and consolidation it's not as if I 'buy' stuff.

I think it's a strange profession - I fell into it, like many people. Started as an engineer, then moved into project management and just ended up running a massive procurement project, had a knack for the commercials and ended up staying in procurement. Which is good because frankly I wasn't the best engineer in the world, I would have never progressed far.

Procurement salaries are pretty good as well. Shamefully so sometimes.

I am looking forward to getting stuck into my new role - the procurement function is very basic and like something from the 90s - they still have paper requisitions! So lots of low hanging fruit.

It's very short sighted of your work to not progress you because you work pt - it's the kind of job which has the flexibility to accomodate pt working imo.

I am staying where I am I think for a while - I am very tempted to look into publci sector contracting. They can earn an absolute fortune (upwards of a grand a day). I like being salaried though.

YANBU to ask. But I won't tell you

I'm really quite surprised at some of the salaries on here for highly skilled jobs, particularly those in medicine or education?

I work a 40 hour week, with some international travel in a strategy role. I previously earned £80K + bonus as a management consultant, but left 6 years ago to take a less stressful job closer to home. Truth is, its still stressful, I travel too much and I hate my boss. I now earn £45k with a decent pension BUT this year I'm going to look for a new job!

SAHM - £0.

I make some money making novelty cakes, but it's not much and the work can be patchy.

Im a basic skills tutor for young mums who are neets.

It's voluntary, I work for a very cash-strapped charity but as dh is a GP on a very good wage, we can afford for me to work for free.

I do this on the back of me being a secondary teacher, and I tutor for exams too. £25/hr, but it's worth it, everyone I've ever tutored has got an a or b.

Find it odd that someone upthread said GP is a good lifestyle choice. My dh is one. It's a bit better now they don't do their own on-call all the time, but we had over 5 years of him working 1:2 or 1:3. Even now his typical day is 8-8, rarely home to see our dc into bed, overnight twice a week (just to catch up with paperwork, one night also on-call, also 1:5 weekends as he's in a rural area.). Yes, the money is good, but the hits we take on family time etc are noticeable. He's been slowly retraining in theology and hopes to be able to go PT in order to write. But as I'm disabled and can't hold down a ft job, we do rely on his income.

First job in 1996 - 18k
Last full time job-125k + bonus
Went to 3 day week - 75k

Then moved because of my husband's job, lost my fabulous part time role and am a grumpy, reluctant, frustrated full time mother.

I'm a risk consultant -FT salary is 140k + 45% bonus if I reach targets.

But I work part time and so take home a % of that.

weegie I think that perception is due to the large % of GPs who don't do any nights/weekends. Obviously some GPs like your DH do.

SAHM £0.00

Earn £45k for 3 days a week.
Freelance market researcher, self employed, so it could all stop in an instant if work dries up.

£22k for 36 hours, fairly meaningless job in a warehouse. The only plus to the extremely antisocial (think "nobody-in-their-right-minds-would-want-to-work-that-shift") is DH & I can both work full-time and not worry about childcare. Time for a radical career change this year though.