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

Omg these salaries are huge!

So glad people are taking part !

Yeold I have been considering entering management consultancy etc, as I think that would best match my personality. But I am open to other fields which is why this so helpful. The business/corporate area interests me - having seen what the "lower" scale looks like, I want to see what happens in the head offices iyswim

£26k
Physical activity advisor in the NHS
Lancashire
10 years experience

Oh entry requirements for insurance are at least a L3 in health, safety and salon environment but most take the degree now to gain more experience and contacts - it's def worth doing if you want to work in the wider industry

PA, 33k, London. Years of experience: 5.

Recommend if you want a decently paid job that doesn't require a massive amount of thinking or out of hours work. Not all PA jobs are like this mind. If you work in Finance or any other corporate setting you're screwed. I work in Higher Education and it's pretty cushty.

A degree was required.

marketing, northwest, 45k plus benefits, car, etc.full time 5 days a week plus overtime (unpaid)
CMI qualifications and 22 years experience. Started in ad agencies.

chrisqueen if 100,000 is a low 6 figure salary does that mean you are earning nearly a million?

Banking lawyer
London
2 years post qualification experience - £105k

Specialist type of HR
The City
6 years
£60k + 10% bonus

Somewhere in the middle, but it varies widely year to year as I'm bonus driven depending on work won and billed.

Nurse
Leeds
2 years, plus 3 years training
£24k for full time, but I do 30hrs
I love my job. Couldn't imagine doing anything else.

Office manager, 8 years, £12k for 20hrs/week
Admin/accounts knowledge needed but no specific qualifications

Flexible and low stress is good for fitting in with family, but dull. I want to escape!

solicitor in financial services
London
circa 100k plus bonus
2 years qualified, 2 years working to train, two years postgrad study. first degree from Cambridge.
yes - what i do is very intellectually fulfilling and I work with great people. I do work very hard though. my standard hours are 830 to 830.

University Librarian
Part-time 26k but full-time is about 33k - 40k
Have BA plus MA in Information Studies. Lovely creative job but involves delivering lots of training, presentations so you have to like standing up in front of people and being fairly competent with IT. Not wonderful pay but I rarely take work home. Librarians are mostly nice people to work with.

Peggy that sounds interesting. Did you study banking/finance and then convert to law? Or was it just law and you chose that field?

These all sound so fascinating - maybe not a good idea for someone who's indecisive

Matron, £50k approx, London.
25 years, post grad quals.
Love my patients but hospital management and the government make the job crap. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole if I was starting over. Nor will plenty of others, hence we are going out to Europe and beyond to recruit.

Critical Care nurse (Adult Health)
West Yorkshire
10 years experience + critical care specific training
28k + unsocial allowance (can be 2-3k extra per year, unless J *unt gets his way then it will be nowt)

I love my job but it has a big impact on family life / relationships and due to the poor reputation the NHS has at the moment, abuse and aggression from patients and there families is a pretty regular occurrence .

IT Manager (full time) in the East Midlands - £42k plus bonus/benefits

Degree in Computer Studies, have worked in IT for 19 years

Job: Architect - currently sole practitioner but used to be a director at another firm
Where: NE
Salary - very flexible now it's my firm, depends on clients, the amount of hours I take on and the type of job. When I worked for a firm full time I was on £50k pa. Starting salary was £10k pa.
Experience: 3 university degrees(8yrs) & professional exams, then 12yrs of professional experience + extra qualifications in my specialisms. Have been on my own for 2yrs - this was a lifestyle/family choice rather than a progression of my career.

Management Accountant
North East
2.5 years post CIMA qual
£43k plus bonus potential

Have to be CIMA qualified, you work hard but the work is very flexible and keeps your brain ticking which is good. Definite opportunities for salary progression with experience and qualifications in accounting

Sorry forgot to give my thoughts about entering the field etc. Re my profession (computer programming), there is a shortage of skilled software engineers so you are more than likely to get a job if you decide to enter the profession. You need no professional qualifications - it is not regulated in the sense that medicine and the law are, but if you haven't got an IT qualification employers will need to see that you have worked on successful projects. I have got no IT qualifications, but because my previous employer trained me on the job I have had no problems getting work.
The working culture depends on the company - I have never had to work past 5pm where I am currently, but this will be different elsewhere. There are moments of pressure when a client wants something or a program goes wrong, but that is unusual in my experience.
You need an attention to detail, ability to think logically and troubleshoot. If you write user interfaces you need to put yourself in the users shoes and imagine you are someone using the program.
It is a very male dominated industry at the moment. Hopefully this will change with time.

Marketing, London, £54k, plus car, 8 years experience

Senior Learning Technologist in a University
London
Just over the £40,000 mark
I'm a former teacher with a MSc in computing. Neither of these qualifications is necessary, but a first degree is the baseline. I'm always trying to encourage people into the profession and mentor administrators who want to make the leap and teachers who want to get out of classroom teaching while staying in education.

Recommended (I love my job) for those who are a bit techy, have a background in education and are prepared to have a go at a wide range of things. My average week includes presenting at conferences, teaching academics how to teach online, learning new tools, a bit of data management, a bit of project management, a bit of influencing university policy and a LOT of schmoozing (I think it's called relationship building in by job description)

Head of Legal, large not-for-profit
London
10+ years PQE
£ nowhere near enough (not even close to the other lawyers on this thread)

But I love, love, love my job