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

Area manager in commercial banking
East mids
£65k plus bonus and benefits
20 yrs experience

No specific entry requirements when I left school but have taken professional qualifications whilst working

Management Accountant / modeller.

I would earn £60k if I worked full time. I could earn more however my company are flexible and let me work from home.

I have a degree, an accountancy qualification and 12 years post qualified experience. I have always worked in industry and find my job interesting but I am a geek.

I have also learnt to programme in vba which means I can do clever things to soreadsheets which I love.

Headteacher in a primary school. Earn c.£56000. Did 9 years teaching & 1 year as a Deputy Head.
I LOVE my job.... even though its majorly chaotic, its different every single day.

Civil servant in big Government Department

Earn about £52k.

15 years experience. Started at a low level after Uni and worked my way up.

Definitely recommend it as I love my job. Some long hours, especially if I have a bill going through the House. But 30 days holiday and flexible time.

Senior Contracts Officer for an engineering / manufacturing company. 40k pa but on 60% part time contract at the moment. Based in North west.
Degree in English from top 5 uni and company sponsored qualifications including CIPS and legal framework courses.

Staff nurse at a local hospital

Earn about 28k pro rata as work part-time

Been qualified for 14 years now

North of England

Love my job , not sure I would recommend it to anyone else though

Dentist 5 years at university, 13 years qualified
North west
£65k+ full time
Love my job but very very busy

Sonographer in specialist field.
6 years total study with two years work in between. 3 year degree. 2 years for Pgd and a further year for extra specialism.
11 years experience since graduating.
Earn 40k pro rata. At top of my band so it's 1% pay rises for the foreseeable future for me.
Only work two days at the mo and lucky my job allows me to do that as I know a lot of people that have had to work full time or quit.
But it's a lot of responsibility for the money, I write reports which I am accountable for the same as consultant radiologists do but get paid a lot lot less.

Senior level scientist in a government trading fund. In the SW. Full-time salary would be £38k. I have 15 years on the job with first degree, masters and PhD. Very specialist field, requiring having physics/maths background.

I like my job, it's very interesting, I get to travel if I want but not forced to. Hours are flexible.

The pay is crap relative to level of professional skills/training required to do it. But clearly not as crap as some, esp those in the NHS.

Occupational Therapist, team leader. 25 years experience. £35,000

Have loved every job I have done since qualifying as an OT.

Name changed for obvious reasons.

intervention consultant and provider (not precise job title)
Salary 7 figures but falling.
Areas worked UK and rest of Europe.
Entry requirements Relevant Ph.D plus experance as well as shit loads of other stuff.

Would I recommend it? A few years ago yes but now no. I Currently have a withdrawal plan in place that means I will be replaced so I can retire and walk away from it forever.

How did I get into it? Several decades ago I was street homeless and attending a DA support group at a voluntary service the woman who ran it saw something in me that inspired her and they paid for me to go to college and helped me with housing after I compleated my courses they employed me and sent me on some more,I then got asked to work at a intervention partnership whilst working there I did more qualifications and advanced up and up sometimes down then up again.

Then as a group effort with a few other providers and a lot of our own cash and a heck of a lot of good will we started our own service the majority of the income comes from training events and speaking but direct service provision is funded in other ways.

This is only a vague overview with anything perticularly identifying removed

Digital advertising sales in Central Scotland.
£26k basic plus commission. Brings it to about £34k.
I have a degree but it's not in a relevant field. My boss did say she was influenced by it when I was hired but it was more to do with my past experience.
Been in the job six years and started off as a researcher for the company and progressed to sales.

TraIner. Charitable sector. About 44K if f/t.
10 years experience, in SE.

Yorkshapudding

It really is a shame that people who make such a huge difference to an individual and in turn society as a whole , get paid peanuts in comparison to someone who makes an individual or organisation a huge amount of money . I feel absolutely no malice to anyone who does the latter , that is their job and it serves them and their family well . It would be amazing though if those in the latter job could spend some time with you in yours and see first hand what it entails.

Job title: Information officer (translation: researcher within a knowledge service team- what most people would think of as a library but in reality a lot wider in scope)
Where: international law firm, The City
Years experience: 8
Salary: 32k
Degree: yes, but not directly related. Many similar jobs would want a specific Information profession masters qualification, but my boss is v much about innate skill and gaining hands on experience.

Interesting. You're either cut out for it or not. Attention to detail, an enquiring mind, lateral thinking and amazing customer service skills are the key. It's the opposite of process driven and you never never know what you'll be asked next. Information people (librarians to the lay person) are a great bunch to work with on the whole. Decent career progression. Easy to work up within a department from an entry level admin assistant type job.

I'd generally recommend as a much underestimated career option.

Digital stuff at a charity.
£29k, you're supposed to have a degree according to the ad but I don't. 2 years experience in this as a job but many more outside work.
I love my job, work with amazing people and for amazing, though vulnerable, people. And I get to be creative and use my brain!
I'm in London.

Customer service assistant for London Underground (soon being upgraded to supervisor for no extra pay due to central government cuts).
£34k
Running a ticket office (though they are all closing now) helping customers use the Tube, safety critical stuff like evacuations, fires, possible terrorism. Also crowd control, platform duties, dealing with complaints, control room duties (cc tv, announcements, receiving and passing information), security checks, and general dogsbody.
Perks: Free taxi home after last tube if there's no night bus, free bus and tube pass, free uniform, reduced annual tickets between work and home on NR, decent pension, reduced fares on Eurostar, Cycle2Work scheme, childcare vouchers plus others.
I like it. I don't like the hours sometimes, as it impacts on family life, but there's enough to keep me there (14 years so far).

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Policy Advisor - in a niche socio-political area

Employer - a national professional body

Pay - scale goes from 42k up to £50k plus benefits. I'm on 42k.

Requirements - degree and experience in the profession.

Location - central London

Experience - I've been working since 2007. I started out as a commercial lawyer but dropped out and worked in local government as a policy adviser in two departments for a few years. Some of my work in local government was extremely relevant to my current role as is the fact that I was once a lawyer. I've been in this role for a year.

Pay isn't great for central London and it's a very busy job that requires a hefty amount of networking. I don't have a team and my projects are solely my responsibility which can be nerve wracking at times. The core objective of my job is what motivates me.

DH is a city lawyer and I back up what people say about the hours and sacrifices. We don't see each other much durning the week.

Anyone a veterinary nurse? Thinking about a career change in a few years as I don't think I can keep up my current commute and hours - that, and it's always been a dream to work with animals. Would like to know a little more about it.

Hospital consultant

About 80k

6 years at university, over a decade of postgraduate training, about half a decade in post. Also an awful lot of exams, including an extra masters in my "spare time".

Allegedly work 48 hours. Hahaha. Any week with less than 8 hours unpaid overtime is clearly a quiet one. Work 52 hour weekend shifts, about 1 weekend in 5 (and obviously very other night, including Friday, comes round one in 5). Always in at the weekend. Usually end up coming in at night, then working the next day.

Would I do it again? Yes, maybe, no, depends. At 2 am the answer would be no. And it's hit my health, and probably made me leave it to late for children. But then sometimes you get to make a real difference, and that makes you love the job. Today I saved a life. How bloody cool a perk is that???!! Today I finished several hours late, but absolutely love my job!

Dentist in Yorkshire, 15 years qualified
£30k doin 2 days a week.
I enjoy it but it's very hard work.

No university for me.

Started my own business from scratch, can't say what as very unusual and would out me. Been doing it 3 years. Love it and love my staff. Earn about £1.5k a week, rarely less but sometimes more, so about £80k a year.

DP also no degree, has his own business also (completely separate field to mine) and he earns triple what I earn.

Live in one of the poorest counties in the UK but pride ourselves on employing plenty of staff and are able to pay them well.

No disrespect to anyone who has studied hard for their career, I take my hat off to you but I've rarely came across graduates who earn a lot in my area which is sad and I think professionals that serve us (especially HCP) aren't paid well enough.

Accountant, up north, 6 figures basic, plus bonus plus car.

PA with a degree here and 14 years experience. Currently earning £32k in South East.

Also wondering how to get out...

Buyer for large retailer, Midlands
£70K plus car and bonus (up to 25%)
After university joined a retailer's head office in buying team and worked my way up from buying assistant
Yes, would recomend as a career - great salary, hours not too bad and interesting work.

I am amazed how many legal folk there are here (I only know a few in RL).

I am a scientist, currently discovering new cancer drugs. Cambridge area. BSc, Masters degree, PhD all from RG universities, also a couple of professional management qualifications (OU and Cambridge Uni). 19 years experience since completing PhD. Salary just over £50k and the occasional bonus (not every year).

Science is underpaid compared to other professions with a similar level of training, but it is so interesting