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

Sorry and I'm in London, and I also have a masters in public policy but that isn't required or particularly advantageous.

Thunderbird

I was lucky I fell into HR and this job/company.

I don't have any HR qualifications but my job and the environment are very specialised so in many ways it would be hard to find a qualification that would be relevant.

I'm a HR assistant for a charity based in Leeds. I'm CIPD qualified to L3 and am starting L5 in September, both completed alongside working 35 hours a week. 3.5 years HR experience, 3 years previously working in recruitment. Currently earning £20,000 but aiming for closer to £25,000 by this time next year.

Route in: hard work. Be prepared to study & work at the same time, as the qualifications are far more valuable alongside real work experience.

Recommend? Yes, I love my job. You need to be robust and able to be emotionally disengaged with some of the cases, but there are nice aspects too. I think where you work has as much influence as the job though. My last company was awful & would have been no matter what job I was doing!

Specialist teacher. North. £42 K. 15 years qualified. Posgrad qualifications.

Assistant Principal Secondary school.
Yorkshire
48k (returning p/t 4 days a week after maternity on 39k)
Teaching for almost 12 years
Love the variety of my job but concerned that after 2nd child my ambition and drive appears to have disappeared! Sometimes feels that I spend more time parenting other people's children than my own, my role has behaviour/pastoral focus.

Customer Service Rep, £10 hourly rate, 15 years experience, Scotland.
You need to be polite, confident, friendly and super efficient.

You also need to have a full life outside of work because its not a career, just a job.

Starkers- progressing as a PA tip.

Become PA to someone really good who thinks you are really good. Get them to introduce you to people who are hiring in other kinds of jobs where there are routes to progress.

Worked for me (now on £150k+).

In terms of the route to being an in-house lawyer it's been posted numerous times now.

I was first generation university, did my A levels at 6th form college and managed through my degree on bank and student loans and credit cards. Didn't have gap years because I needed to get working and start paying off some of the £25k of debt (that was late 90s).

I knew from an early age that I wanted to earn lots of money (had seen my parents cry at being unable to pay bills etc) and knew good academics was the key. At 14 I told the careers adviser I wanted to be 'rich' and [somewhat misguidedly] she recommended a profession. I wasn't keen on science so medicine was out and the only other profession I knew of was law. I got work experience by asking a high street firm age 15. At University I found out the large London firms paid for you to do your LPC (post grad qualification) and the highest paying area was corporate, so I went for that.

My 20s were spend frequently working 80+ hour weeks including weekends and periods of not leaving the office or sleeping at all for days on end. In the lead up to my wedding I was working like this and ended up losing my voice and a lot of my hair. It was genuinely stressful but I knew I needed to graft to keep my job and earn that money.

In addition to the nice life I've bought myself I've paid off my parents debts and sent them on several holidays. I also buy most of their clothes and shoes for them. So I achieved the aim I set out to way back when I was 14.

My current role is 9-5, 3 days per week. Not sure I'd do the whole thing again but I'm happy with where the hard graft got me.

to all the hard-working women out there.

This is a great thread! I love seeing everyone's jobs :D

Children's book illustrator and designer
3 years + 4 years at uni (1 foundation degree and a full 3 year degree in Illustration
Yorkshire
This is definitely a way of life and not just a job, some times I work 70 hours a week and only get paid £10-£12k a year.

I started out in retail and I loved it, it was a perfect first job for me and got me through university, I only left because the shop closed down, I would have carried on part time and illustrated alongside.

Lecturer in FE - based in Scotland and earn £40k. I teach marketing, and prior to this job worked in marketing in both private and public sector. Qualifications are honours degree and postgraduate. Would I recommend it? Some parts - I'm ready to move back into doing what I teach after eight years now, but it feels like I've been out of "industry" for too long and I'm stuck!

HR Manager, Education
Greater London
£50k and excellent pension and holidays and the work is easy peasy
11 years experience. It's a second career and I transferred skills to it after an 8 year career break.
I started at the very bottom all over again and did my professional qualifications working full-time and being a mum.

I love it and the flexibility of working locally and the better than average holidays are perfect as a home-maker. I give it my all though and put in more than I take out which means if I have an emergency at home they are flexible with me. Not that I have many emergencies but when I've had to fly out because one of the children has been ill, etc., they have always been very understanding except for one bitch of a boss and she only lasted 11 months because the SLR got the measure of her very quickly

Risk Manager (quite junior).

Degree from RG uni.

Professional qualifications (lots of exams)

6 years since leaving university.

30k

Would recommend.

I don't think you necessarily need a degree to do it but it would be hard to get a foot in the door without one, perhaps. And you wouldn't want to pay for the exams yourself.

I'm in the North.

Many moons ago I did an Cambridge law degree and ran a mile from the City (and practice!) and even looking at HOW MUCH FRICKIN MONEY I don't regret it.

Director of Marketing and Fundraising, non-profit arts charity, London, f/t, £34k. For the level I'm at (head of dept reporting directly into chief exec) this is low even for the sector. But they are nice people and my job is making the world a better place, not a worse one. I took a £6k pay cut to come here even though it's a step up. 10+ years experience, moving gradually into the sector I wanted to be in, and an arts MA (which I did while working full time). Looking to set up as a freelance curator on the side in the next year or two but again this ain't going to make me rich.

I always felt reasonably well-off, this thread's given me some perspective! This is like when I toddled off to Cambridge convinced I was "posh" (the other kids on our estate said I was because we didn't have net curtains) and then I met proper posh people and I was like "oh...right".

Director - all back office functions (Finance, Quality, HR, Law, IT)
£75,000 plus car, bonus & benefits
The Midlands back of beyond
Pharmaceuticals
No profession as such but a member of a number of bodies inc. CIMA, IAM, CIPD, IOD. Qualifications gained in all the above areas over the years. This job is the culmination of my years spent in other fields.
25 years experience.
I enjoy it very much - it's varied and interesting and I'd recommend it if you enjoy detailed, office-based work with variety and you have the skills to manage people, systems and resources whilst also focussing on strategy and company politics. I have no children & no partner. if I had, I doubt I'd have been able to gain the broad experience (e.g. being seconded to different regions/countries) and wide range of skills that I have. If I could have my time again, I'd focus on IT.

Has anything you've seen so far taken your fancy OP?

Psychology Wellbeing Practitioner
25k
3 years
Degree and post grad qualifications

Do it if you want to be on the front line of nhs mental health services / help people / have a challenge. Don't do it if you don't want to manage a large and complex caseload.

Moab it's not UPS - I'll be going to M5 with a TLR 2 (a or c- the highest tlr 2) for a Middle Leader position.

Sorry for being vague; I don't want to out myself too much.

Custody officer (civilian) for the police
Based in Scotland
Been doing this job for 9yrs, been working for the police for 11yrs (started off as a call taker)
Salary: 33k
Pros: working shifts so days off during the week, it can be very very funny and my team are a good bunch.
Cons: working shifts, my work place stinks, it can be bloody hard work, we get assaulted regularly and verbally threatened daily.
It's not the job I thought I'd be doing but I just like it as I've been doing it so long!

Practice nurse in GP surgery. Respiratory nurse specialist and team leader
£36,000. 30 years as a nurse.
Lots and lots of training to get this far.
Would I recommend - NO

HR manager near London
£51k
1st class honours degree & CIPD qualified 10 years experience.
Some days I love it, others I hate it! I can't imagine doing anything else though. It's not for the faint hearted though (in my organisation anyway)

I am currently finishing a masters so not in full time employment.

But I just wanted to say how heart-warming it is to see so many women in a range of careers doing well for themselves and enjoying what they do.

Public health specialist
10 years but 5 years working in another sector before that.
55k
Degree, masters and professional qualification and registration
I spent a lot of time studying whilst working full time and trying to have a life.
I enjoy it and I'm trying to improve the populations health and wellbeing and particularly that of vulnerable groups. It can be frustrating at times and the politics can be demoralising.

Senior CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health) Nurse

£28k (pro rata, I'm part time so earn less but that's my choice)

4 years working as a support worker in adult acute and forensic units. 3 years full time BSC. Postgraduate training in a couple of different talking therapies. I have been a qualified Nurse for 5 years.

I love my job. It's never boring and it means a great deal to me that I am able to make a tangible difference to the lives of some very vulnerable children. Some of thr kids are nothing short of amazing. I am able to work part time, although I take a fair bit of admin home.

Would I recommend it? That's a tough one. I'm going to be honest- I'm not proud of this but reading about some of your salaries has made me feel quite deflated. I went into Nursing with my eyes open, I never expected to be wealthy. But the workload and complexity of cases is ever increasing, so the amount of work I bring home is too and years of pay restraint does grind you down. It makes you feel that your contribution to society isn't valued. As a Senior, my caseload is made up of children with very complex difficulties, they are almost all suicidal and their safety is my responsibility. Children who have been sexually abused, children who have lost a parent through murder or suicide, teenage gang members, kids who drink bleach or cut themselves so deep they are left with permanent nerve damage...I could go on. When I think about the amount of stress and responsibility and weigh that against the fact that I could have a better standard of living as a PA or Retail Manager (don't get me wrong, I'm not saying those are easy jobs, I know that I would find it stressful and demanding at times but it's probably safe to assume that no one would die if I made a mistake) I'm not sure that I would take the same path if I had my time over again...and just writing that makes me feel sad.

SAHM, 8 years' experience, earn £0...last job Project Worker for a health charity, salary 23k. I have a first class degree and a PGDip but no professional qualification.

So interesting!

Teacher- head of dept
Oop North
47.5K
10 yrs - degree and PGCE