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

2 degrees including postgraduate
3yrs Experience on trading floor
2yrs in current role (hedge fund industry)
London
6 figures

Marketing manager, South, £25k. Five years experience. Love it and feel like I've only just got started. I work for a marketing agency.

Registered Veterinary Nurse
South West
Work on average 40 hrs/wk including nights + weekends.
Earn £19k a year (qualified 13yrs).
Minimum of 5 GCSEs A - C grade to enter training.
Training takes between 2 - 4 years depending on route (diploma/degree). Although when I trained, it was under NVQ.
Would I recommend it? If you love animals, and don't care about earnings, then 100% yes!

My conclusion from glancing through this thread is that lawyers like to talk about how much they earn!

For my part, I combine being a SAHP with running a very small business, being Clerk to a Parish Council, some voluntary work and an allotment. I bring in cash of about £4K per year, which supplements the family income. The allotment saves about £800 pa on food bills and tastes great. Intelligent household management and doing a lot of things myself that other people pay folk to do also saves money.

No particular qualifications needed to do what I do, although I have three degrees including a 1st from Oxford. Quality of life is more important than money.

TEFL teacher abroad, 'milliorista' (ie on €1,000 per month), 17 years' experience. I teach 8yo to 100yos

I was earning nearly double in a big city, same country, but we decided to move to a smaller more child-friendly place and raise our dc.

I could: start my own school; become an examiner/marker; become director of studies for a franchise, but I'm not interested enough.

Timetable cooks sock: 4/5pm-9/10pm (depending on the day), plus 3 hours Saturdays.

Contact hours are 21 per week, plus planning, marking homework and other things that crop up. Responsibility is high - just had 100% pass rate for all my students who sat a high-level exam

When I started out I was 23 and in it for the 'shits n giggles', but soon took it very seriously and I still love it. Social life is GREAT and many of us have met partners through fellow teachers or students

Wow ! I'm so happy with all these positive responses. Apologies for the late reply - had a late shift and have just got in (1.5hr commute )

Someone asked if I had an idea of what I want to follow up. I am really intrigued by people working as lawyers for banks or finance people working in law firms. I know it sounds crazy to be interested in both as they are quite different but they really do appeal to me. I'm not convinced law is for me though - I'm more of a number person , so I think I'll research finance jobs in law firms (e.g. accounting for a law firm - are there others?)

Thankyou so much again ! And am genuinely happy reading about so much success (financially and satisfaction)

Recruitment Manager for a media Company. Needed: a degree, organisational skills, being able to push back on people way more senior than you and being generally good with people.

5 years experience post degree (6 months off for Mat leave include in that).

£55k salary.

Recommend: yes, if you like roller coasters. In-house recruitment can be very fulfilling plus you get the strategy bit thrown in. However I'm on my iPhone answering emails until 9-10pm at night on average, and it can be stressful. People care a lot about senior recruitment...

I think a lot of lawyers are on MN

I also grow my own veg and sew my own clothes, but that isn't what this thread is about.

There is a recent thread in chat about fluffy kittens - want to go shit over there?

Primary teacher
Central south of England
28 years
34K
English degree and PGCE

Financial services (not banking!)
Self employed so variable and between £210k to £680k per annum over last five years (tax is around 45% though, so not what I have to spend).
London, mainly.
I entered by accident, just got lucky.
No, I don't recommend it would rather I was one of DCs to inherit some of it and go into building or a surf instructor or a naturalist - that's my only wish.

Oh, and I grow my own veg, go on camping holidays and don't drink champagne or buy magazines and drive around in a 10 year old 1200 cc car because I don't like waste.

Nosey you need to do law in an accounting firm. Not the other way round.

Retail Manager for high end fashion, been there 8 years but been doing retail for 16 years since leaving school

£27,000 + bonuses

Run my own business, Wales, currently working 3 days a week coming back from mat leave. Earn approx 8k p.a. Because I take the most basic salary I can and use the rest to pay someone to work the other days in my place. Previously I was working 7 days a week. Business isn't profitable yet, only been running 18 months but hopefully will be next financial year.

In a previous life I was a construction lawyer at a city firm.

Would I recommend? Possibly. I love running my own business but it's really stressful and hard work and realistically, the only reason I have been able to to it is that dh earns enough to support us and to finance the start up costs. I realise I am very lucky in this regard.

Also, if you are going to start your own business, I would not recommend getting pregnant 3 weeks after it opens!

On a career break but previously Head of PR & Media for a zoo.

Loved it, pinched myself every day that I got up close to some amazing animals. £25k, zoos tend to be charities. Comms degree & 10 years pr & media experience.

Primary school lunchtime ancillary & also a shop worker. NW based. Combined salary approx £4.8k for working just under 20 hours per week. Sigh....

Enjoying this thread. I earn £6500 pa as a teaching assistant. I also tutor English privately. 3 years. Love doing both. English degree plus post graduate qualification.

In London. Earn around £27,000 working for a human rights charity. I love my job as it mostly involves writing and I love writing. I have two and a alf years experience in this kind of job.

Previously I was a junior manager for a large corporate. Hated every minute if it for the last few years. I was on £33,000 plus 10% bonus. I took voluntary redundancy, paid off my mortgage 7 years early and took a pay cut to work in the charity sector. Best thing I ever did.

Oracle DBA/Linux admin/dev ops manager

NW
£75k pa with excellent benefits that take me to conferences/meetings all over the world.
20 years

No degree education as I dropped out to enjoy acid house and become a crusty throughout the 90's, since then multiple technical qualifications that don't mean much for me personally more for the gov agency I work for.

As for working in the environment, it is not all Google with foozball and slides and hot desks, the majority(high paying work) is sat in hot/cold noisy server rooms or sat in a cubical working on 150 lines of code, if you want to get into dev work then as currently mentioned there is a shortage at the minute but that is due to be flooded soon so will normalise wages, there are a lot of people scrambling around for scraps. Where there is a shortage is with real competent coders, this is learnt on the job so is still a significantly low entry position, and relative high burn out, network/dab stuff your going to work from the ground up as there is no way I'm letting you loose on mission critical stuff until you have spent a few years dealing with minor irritations.

Mortgage Advisor
Yorkshire
£27k (pro rata)
7years
Hate it.

Nosey77, I looked at the other thread about jobs that you posted - it was very interesting - but the main thing that struck me was that the range of jobs on that thread was almost completely different to on this thread. Here, we have not had an intimate waxer, a phlebotomist (I don't think that spelling is correct), someone who runs a crematorium, a chiropractor, hospital lab folk who deal with 'clinical samples' etc. etc. etc.

Do you think it is the question about salary that has made all the difference?

Volunteer Officer
£20k
South West
2 months

I've been lucky with this because I kind of fell into a similar role whilst working in marketing previously. It's challenging and interesting and I'm at the very beginning of hopefully climbing the ladder in the third sector. It doesn't sound like much money to most people but I was in a low paid 'profession' a few years ago that required qualifications, thought 'fuck it, I need to do something else', got into marketing with no qualifications and here I am. I am qualified to do a profession, only one completely unrelated to what I do now.

17k local government admin for last 3 years - have a phd though, depressingly

Sallyrie do you say that because of salaries or because it's not possible to do it the way I said (brain fart)

grumpy I do think the salary has put people off unfortunately - but for me it is a big factor in which career I would like to follow, if possible (I.e not medicine as I didn't do any sciences except maths). I had hoped the positive vibe and encouragement in the thread would bring in more people

Are there any management consultants out there, willing to share ?