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

Runyourjuicebitch, wow that surprises me I though vets earned a lot more

I'm also very surprised at what you earn as a vet after 7 years.

I thought it would be double that!!

It's not as lucrative as common assumption has suggested. Not for the regular guys on the floor, anyway.

I find that many people believe whatever they want to believe about my profession regardless, which is one of the reasons I'm so disillusioned these days. But that's a whole other thread. ;)

School Administrator - Currently 16,939 pro rata at 30.2 hours a week with a guaranteed increase to 19,936 within 2 years. Took a large pay cut when I moved but the money I will save in childcare over the school holidays makes will make it worth it when my wage rises.

Northern
Contact Centre Site Manager for ftse 100
£71k plus car , healthcare etc
Russell Group degree , 18 years experience. Very varied , fast paced , sometimes brilliant fun, sometimes horrible - large scale people management.

Vet
Northern Ireland
qualified 12 years ago
40 hours/week inc weekends, unpaid overtime; extra reading/case research (lots of) and attending CPD lectures in own time
£29k plus bonus which works out at about £4k
so about £33k pa

Run I'd certainly give you a huge huge raise.

I dreamt of becoming a Vet as a child but it was never going to happen.

Still love watching All Creatures Great And Small though

sooperdooper and only1scoop - yeah everyone thinks that.

Actuary, Scotland, 10years pqe. Salary circa £100k if I was full time.

First class maths based degree plus A at higher maths to get my job.

I went back part time after mat leave, as do many of my colleagues, however that means less senior roles. I took a pay cut and a step down.

I mostly enjoy my job. I would enjoy it a bit more if my boss was a bit more approachable! I don't have to work long hours apart from rarely and can work from home and nip out to school meetings etc.

Nodding indeed. I imagined it would be far higher and deservedly so IMO.

How about an Equine vet? ....I read an article once about that being one of the most dangerous jobs out there.

Business manager for large retailer
£70k plus bonus, c.£20k
14 years experience in retail
Love it but not sure the journey is what you'd call family friendly
Current hours are good though
No intention to leave atm!

Vets and doctors are severely underpaid in the UK. I'm a high earning doctor due to private practice but many colleagues are paid much much less. If we lost the NHS and all went private it's very likely we would earn much more but only those who paid would get any healthcare and that's not what we want. I'll get off my soapbox now.

Again, vets are shockingly underpaid. We have some warped values indeed.

Teacher
Ten years qualified
Work three days a week
I earn just under £18k

Child protection social worker
£30k pro rate (£24k for 30 hours)
2 years masters degree (funded by the government, thanks nulab)
8 years prior experience in social care, 1 year post qualified

It's hard work. I don't do endless overtime unlike some, I'm a LP and just can't do it. But when I'm at work it's flat out, no lunch breaks, no time to reflect or absorb what you are doing. I love love love getting down with people and getting to the heart of what's going on, making good relationships and helping them to make changes but I spend 8 hours a day enmeshed in other people's lives, it's impossible to switch that off completely when you go home. I do worry and I do wake up in the night going over the things that have happened that day because there is no time to process it during working hours. It's an all consuming job. You have to be extremely organised and have a very good memory. Plus not be a total knob. And people will swear at you and call you a bully and a plank (both today, different men) and a lot worse. And they might threaten to hurt you or your name might be in the national press just for trying to do your job and protect children.

Having said all that, I wouldn't do anything else. I do wish I was paid better for it though!

Chartered Accountant; post degree I qualified with one of the Big Four (like several others on here) - 20 years' experience.

Worked overseas for 10 years on about £80k+, since being back in the UK salary has ranged from £40k in the SE to £100k in London (with lots in between).

Currently working contracts with my own company which is flexible. Since I hit 40 and paid off my mortgage, I'm much less bothered about money and more concerned about a work/life balance, especially as DD is nearly 18 and it's her last year at home before Uni (and there's always been just the two of us). I am in awe of many of the salaries on here but am sure that with these goes a huge amount of sweat, tears and long hours - I did all that when I was younger and wouldn't want to do it now. Having said that, accountancy is a good career - flexible, you can take breaks and get back into it, and you can work pretty much anywhere in the world (although the same could be said for hairdressing).

apetite1 let's keep in mind that it was the medical profession that almost prevented the NHS from being created. The amount of money that was needed to 'pay off' the doctors almost bankrupted the entire country. That's the same reason why the USA does not have a national health service: doctors' organizations threw so much money at striking down Roosevelt's plans for an NHS in the 1930s that he had to give up. They did the same with Kennedy, Johnson, and Clinton.

As a profession and political lobbying group, doctors have a strong track record of blocking nationalised healthcare in the interests of their earning power.

Now nurses--they seem terribly underpaid.

Teacher upper pay scale
21 years experience
(20 years working in labs before qualifying)
BSc Hons
PGCE
post grad study
34K pro rata (work 5 mornings a week)
due to retire in next 5 years, but because my career has been largely part time, pension is very low so I am keeping working for as long as I can.

Senior economist at consulting firm (not in the UK).

Net annual salary around £ 70k for 25 hours per week. Very flexible hours.

Masters degree in Law and Economics, two undergraduate degrees (B.Com and Law).

15 years experience, with my first five years spent in a 'Big 5' consulting firm. I work in specialist topics within the field of law and economics. Nerdy job.

Worked very very hard at school, university and in my early twenties. Then I made a conscious choice to step out of the rat-race to enjoy the ride. I could be paid more but I can't be bothered climbing ladders and sucking arse.

Another lawyer here.

Around 15 years experience.

Salary in low six figures.

Law degree plus post grad training plus on the job training.

I sometimes enjoy what I do although some of the people I gave to deal with are arseholes. It is hard to combine with family life though. My area of law requires long hours and travel.

Nanny / Housekeeper.
25k, 35hr week, 2 bedroomed cottage (no bills) and a car if needed.
No qualification but over 20 years experience UK and Overseas.
Did own a safari company in Africa which came with a great life style but went and met a man and married he needs to be based in the UK at the moment but if I ever saw a nanny job in Africa I would jump at the chance.

I suspect the reason there's a lot of lawyers on here is that MN involves written communication. And lawyers brains are wired for written communication. It is much harder to participate on an internet forum if you struggle with writing and reading... which rules out a surprisingly large number of people.

dontrun American doctors and doctors in the 1930s don't have much to do with me nor do they represent my views. The Tories are hell bent on getting rid of the NHS and it is disappearing before our very eyes. They want private health care so the big businesses can benefit. Trust me, doctors would do very well out of private practice so the ones losing out would be the poor who cannot afford healthcare. Medical skills are quite transferable abroad, UK training is very well regarded. Do we want to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds training a doctor, only for them to leave the UK for greener pastures?

Petition to get rid of Jeremy Hunt has now reached 165,000 signatures, quite apart from his insults to doctors, the man does not understand the NHS at all:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104334

Sorry for diverting this thread. I won't be replying to this issue any further on this thread.

Job - Army Wife

Salary £0

Route to job : Go to uni, get a good degree, get a postgrad, work in various jobs, go to a function at local Officers' Mess, trip over semi-drunk subaltern, get engaged, get married, have kids.

Skills needed: The ability to neck Gurkha-made gluhwein after winter parades without getting squiffy, the ability to dance with a man in spurs without ripping your dress, be able to feed twenty hungry subbies with two tins of beans and a loaf of bread at twenty minutes notice, be able to cope with anything when your husband is away playing war for six months at a time, knowing how to pack up an entire house in 24hrs and unpack it all again in a further 24hrs, knowing how to keep a straight face when staring at overseas royalty with weird Marge Simpson hair, knowledge of appropriate first aid for Mess Rugby injuries and Reeling Incidents.

Yet another lawyer here!

Central belt Scotland.
12 years post qualification, and before that 4 year degree, 1 year postgrad diploma in legal practice and 2 years on the job training.
Work full time and earn £82k plus benefits working for a large Scottish legal firm.
Would I recommend it or do it again? Probably not, as the stress and long hours almost kill me at times. When work isn't too busy I do enjoy my job though.

Nurse Head of Dementia Unit. Qualified as Paediatric Nurse 19 years ago! Had a career break and have been working with people who have Dementia for 4 years. Around 31500.