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

Nosey if you're a numbers person and want to be a high earner there are amazing opportunities for people with an accounting background.

• Finance directors are first and foremost accountants, CEOs of companies are often ex-FDs.

• Corporate financiers usually start with an accounting qualification. They advise companies on borrowing money, being sold and buying other companies. There is obviously a huge element of being able to sell, to talk the talk (i.e: confident bulls*tter). Successful ones make a HUGE amount of money (and work far less hard on transactions than the poor old corporate lawyers...

• Private equity investors also usually start with an accounting background. They look for investment opportunities, improve the company then sell it at a profit (if they've done it well). Successful ones end up on the Sunday times rich list (and don't bother with p*ss poor imitations like Dragons Den )

Starting out as a trainee accountant and passing all your exams is the way to go. The more prestigious the accountancy firm, the easier it will be to transfer across to one of the roles listed above.

Oprah Winfrey said that luck was when hard work meets opportunity.

I firmly believe that if you want something badly enough you'll get it.

Go for it.

I've not read the whole thread because it's too depressing! I'm a magazine journalist in London and I earn £30k. I've been a journalist for about 17 years.

I agree with herethere and I always liked maths and money and tax law (although I'm a lawyer not an accountant but I work with many finance directors and accountants). if you want money and an interesting life finance and the corporate world is hard to beat.

Virtual Assistant - Self Employed.
No qualification 'needed' but I've worked in Admin roles for 20 years. Worked part time for a charity that I had no passion for for the past 2 and a half years, but provided Admin on the side for a couple of clients. Decided that it was time. Handed in my notice in May and have been doing this ever since. Am making the same money as I was at the charity. My rate is £13 per hour and I fit the work around the school day / whatever I have planned. Works a treat - or it would do if I hadn't been subject to having a Beagle puppy thrust upon me!!

Forgot to say - I've taken NVQ's and a HNC in Business Admin, Book-Keeping, Event Management and Business Management. None of which were essential but might be useful. Not sure really - I just like Admin so I think I would always have done this anyway. I just needed to find the courage to do it. Salary wise I'd say I average about £600 per month, based on a 12-14 hour week. I could do more hours really but I'm still trying to sort out a website and branding etc so am having to be ruthless and make the time to sort out my 'plan' ????

Artist

Always supplemented income with PT arts admin jobs.

Currently very unproductive as a single mum so probably £7k per year (selling work created pre DS) but earned approx £20k with workshops and commissions before children.

Degree in Art History and loads of CPD in variety of art disciplines.
Need to be really motivated and businesslike although I do often wish I'd chosen a more financially secure career.

Please explain how you can combine a high flying legal career working 8am to 8pm with being a mum? I guess the income pays for the nanny and no stress over childcare costs, but how do you ever see your children?

TA in a SEN school for kids with EBD. I earn about £8.50 an hour which is amazing considering what we have to put up with. Absolutely love it though.

Geologist working in the oil industry
Local contract in Norway (I.e. not expat)
3 yrs experience
Around 50,000 GBP

Recommended if you're interested in the subject, you can't fake an interest in rock for love nor money. I don't love it but I like it enough to earn money to do what I love outside of work.

Please explain how you can combine a high flying legal career working 8am to 8pm with being a mum?

Oh this. A question a little like "When did you stop beating your wife?"

Have you exercised your brain to consider that maybe high-flying women have partners ie the children's fathers who don't work such long hours.

I see more than a few stealth boast posts on here over the years of how much someone's DH works, and how much he earns. That's OK is it, for men to earn shedloads and work long hours & be "high flyers", but when women talk about doing it, they get asked "are you really a mum?" Snakey question, undermining other women like that.

"Please explain how you can combine a high flying legal career working 8am to 8pm with being a mum? I guess the income pays for the nanny and no stress over childcare costs, but how do you ever see your children?"

I am in year 30 of the career and my oldest child is 30. How do women work or men work in these careers? People can start by asking their husband of course. Let us not be sexist about it.

We always tried to get home for 6 or 6.30 and if needed to work later woudl do that. You make compromises. I don't work 8 - 8 now. I work for myself and this week and mostly home based and I start around 6am and I have only teenagers so it's dead easy and it's 9[m now and I'm about to stop so that' 15 hours not 12 which is fine. Although I did take a child to a station and bring it back later in that 15 hours. Life is good.

Also some people are just good at managing a lot of things - career, home, family whether they are male or female and others are not suited to that. We are all different. I was always a very keen breastfeeder so I'd feed immediately before leaving for work, express at work and then feed the second I got home and of course all the time at weekends and through nights. And equal marriage is absolutely the key to it all - marry a sexist bastard who sees children as women's work and you get what you deserve. Marry a feminist man who does as much as you at home in an equal marriage where you might well out earn him several times and a life of fairness, harmony and a happy home tends to follow.

Planning Consultant in Edinburgh, £34000 including travelling expenses from Glasgow- not great but only a small two person company

No-one ever asks high-flying men with families how they cope do they? No-one ever assumes something must be lacking for them or that they can't have it all. Dreadful sexism and sour-grapes mentality which does the progress of women no favours at all.

That said I personally really struggled with city corporate law hours and having my kids. Those that manage it do it by prioritising quality family time at weekends and holidays. When deals finish ensuring time is taken off and a strict 9-5 is worked. Women I know in this position have partners who do more fixed hours or partners who work mostly from home or in one case a SAHD.

DH enjoys his career more than I enjoyed my City job so his took priority during the early years of kids.

After 2 years at home with my second child I was almost suicidal with the feelings of failure and boredom so I got a job that pays well, though less, and continued with my career. I can choose to step it up again when ever I like and I expect other women in my position do the same.

Here....exactly they don't do they.

My thoughts entirely.

I wonder if that poster would be asking the 'high flying' dads the sane question.

'Same'

Red It can also be luck or circumstance which plays quite a large hand. Once your partner starts to earn significantly more, the balance shifts so that it is important he continues to earn this as you make commitments with it.

Luck whether there is childcare available to suit when you have to move areas, or jobs available. Bad luck that the company ceases trading, leaving you with no job whilst he gets promoted, so naturally he feels he needs to take said job.

PR, Central London, around 12 years experience - £65k pro rata (currently on £52k four days a week - working my way back up after mat leave). Am not a particular high flyer, compared to some I work with, but I love it as a career - so interesting and always something new to learn.

Director of IT. Liverpool
80k

HCA in a specialised unit with 10 years experiance £12,500.
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Im looking for a new career, I'm good with my hands, i think well on my feet,and ok at maths. I'm the the most terriable academic, but I love to learn. I live in the SW. I'm willing to try anything.

Cookies - lots of highflying city lawyers feel they don't see enough of their children. And they end up taking a step back - either leaving partnership, going part time, going into knowledge support roles, going to a regional firm with less demanding hours. Obviously some of the mums on this thread managed to do both but with respect to RedDaisy, it is almost impossible to get home for 6.30 these days if you are in a transactional area. When I did manage it I often ended up getting a taxi home (which took only 15 mins), I'd bath DD and put her to bed - often replying to emails - and then sometimes do another hour or so before passing out myself. It was ridiculous.

In RL the mums who managed to stay at the cutting edge of the law tended to have partners who either stayed at home or had jobs with more regular hours. Having both parents in a similar role would be a bit unfair on the kids, imo.

Christ, knew I should have gone into PR...

Publishing, large general trade (ie not academic) company
Central London
Licensing rights
£42k + minuscule bonus
20 years' experience, 8 in current job

Very interesting work in lots of ways, people are great, flexible working as a previous poster said is completely accepted (I do one day from home).

However career progression is very limited (there are only a handful of people doing the job above mine in the industry and roles rarely come up), I'm quite bored with my job now and would like a change. Hey ho.

Still recognise how lucky I am to have a varied, intellectually challenging job.

Oxbridge degree in English, low paid entry job in publishing then several years in TV, moving back to publishing within the TV company and subsequently into this job.

I have namechanged for this!

Lots of my friends are lawyers. I envy their salaries but not their lifestyles.

Not an unreasonable question to ask, and I would ask the same of a man in a high flying career. My husband and I generally get home at 6.30pm (taking turns to pick up the kids on the way home), not 8.00 or 8.30pm as a previous poster mentioned. Quite possibly we would each earn more if more job focused, but at least it's equitable.

So no sour grapes or sexism I just couldn't bear not to see my kids Monday to Friday. That's all.

Two jobs sort of:
Full time - Nurse Specialist
27k plus car. 8years +4years study (1 year access to health science course & 3 year degree)

Also agency work 22pph try to do 2/3 12 hour shifts a month...agency works allow me to work across two hospitals and in varying specialities and keeps my hand in with full skills. Thinking of changing speciality.

Love the job, there's a lot of cattiness but I wonder if that's everywhere..lot of egos. Looking at other professions maybe should have stuck to my accounting studies. Did 1 year doh!

Pan are you a man?