To ask your salary, profession, location and years of experience

[Nosey77]

I know I am being really nosey and it's not very British to talk money. I was inspired by another thread where people are asking questions to all sorts of careers.

I was just wondering if people could take part and say what they do, how much they earn and where they are. Also, could you also provide advice on how to enter the profession and whether you recommend it. Thought this might be more u self than just go ogling as I get real life opinions and have found the other thread really insightful

Please let's not make anyone feel bad for what they are. I'll start

Retail assistant, 3 year, Leeds, £6.50ph. Whilst I actually enjoy it, I'm looking to leave. No advice needed - just hand in tour CVs

Details: Research fellow. Russell Group university in the North West. £44k.
Entry requirements: PhD in appropriate subject. Successful application for funding.
Recommend: Not for the fainthearted. You need to want to do it. It's quite vocational.

Marketing, Central London, have been doing it 10 years. £80k

Freelance copywriter...I don't have a salary but I earn between £15.00 and £30.00 per hour depending on what I'm doing. I'm in the NW and I wouldn't recommend anyone tries to enter the profession without some serious time and cash back up on their hands.

Teacher
North West
£37k
10 years.

Niche area of HR, London/Home-based, 8 years, 60k

Accountant
West Mids
£60k approx +benefits
7 years

Oh my goodness - just realised all the typos in there hopefully it makes sense.

Thankyou to all the replies - very useful

Job: University lecturer- Russell Group University

Where: North East

Salary: £40K

Entry Requirements: BA, MA, PhD, Research assistant/fellow experience, Teaching in HE experience

Recommend: Yes, I love it. I have lots of autonomy and enhoy the content of my work but permenant academic jobs are hard very to get and there's a risk you'll be stuck on short-term contracts for a long, long time. Also, most people who work in academia are complete knobheads.

Experience: Two years in my current job and two years of research fellowship before it.

CEO charity £45k, 15 years. Work way up in different charities and public sector.

It's amazing and exhausting it is definitely a vocation particularly if you are in an area to do with vulnerable people.

My previous career was more interesting, but was very ususual so might out me if I gave specifics rather than vague details, so I'll give you my current one. I don't really want to talk about the proft we make but it is very lucrative.

Ranch owner (and overall manager) in the depths of remote South America. We bought the ranch, kept the hands and their families on, and started running it. Unless you have experience, no, I wouldn't recommend it and it can be a hard life, extremely different to living in the UK. We're five hours drive from the nearest town, which is more of a tiny village really. We love it though, it suits us down to the ground.

Mental health nurse band 7
North West
34k
10 years plus 3 years at uni to qualify.

spindoctor Do you have any advice for entering the profession? Do u recommend it?

Teacher
Nearly 25 years (scary!)
Degree and post-grad training
£50k
I do recommend it - when it's good, it's great - but the present government have made it a less pleasant job and I definitely earn my holidays!

Project manager in a University, £50k, entry reqs: BA, professional experience, 14 years sector experience, 6 years specific experience

Offshore & Subsea Piping Engineer, 15 years, ?700 a day (contractor), London and Aberdeen. Msc in Pipeline Engineering

Since you enjoy retail, OP, what about trying to move into management or getting your own business off the ground?

Health care assistant
(part time. 24 hours per week)
6 months.

Teacher (currently full-time)
16 years experience
Degree plus PGCE
Northern England
£31000

Commercial Manager - 15 years experience. Milton Keynes. Circa £45K - depending on annual bonus :-)

Corporate lawyer
The City
Masters Degree from Oxbridge and Postgrad
High six figures salary
Recommended up to a point, but not for the faint hearted or meek.

I'm a property manager on £30k, done it for just under 5 years. Wouldn't recommend it unless you fancy getting abuse on a daily basis & have more work than time to do it in.

DH is in (specialised) IT, has a degree & had done it for about 10 years ever since uni. He loves his job and gets £110k pa plus huge benefits package worth a fair bit too... I secretly hate/envy him for having a well paid job that he actually enjoys.

University admin assistant
Scotland - central belt
£19.5k
8 years total admin experience, 4 years specifically in HE admin

Software Engineer in the Midlands. £38k. I have 9 years experience in software, before that I was in a scientific field for 6 years.
I think I am well paid for what I do.
I have a BSc in life sciences and an OU maths qualification. I have no IT qualifications, I moved 'sideways' into the field.

Studio Makeup Artist
£70 a day gross
10 years experience

Run, run from this job unless you have someone rich supporting you to do lengthy unpaid internships to build contacts

PA Leeds £34k plus bonus (30 hours per week combination of working at home and in office)

Just something fell into although I have a degree and was a HR manager.
Suits school hours