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

Chartered Accountant, qualified 15 years ago, had 3 year career break 10 years ago, and have worked PT since. I would expect a FT salary to be in the region of £40-75k in my region (SW) dependent on size of company, level of responsibility and whether in an accountancy practice or working in house in an industry.

How to enter the profession (from my angle), get excellent A Level results, go to a good University and obtain a minimum 2:2, have other interests (which are interesting to other people), then get an entry level position at a Big 4 (in my case) and study while working for another 3 years.

I think accountancy is an excellent career - it gives opportunities to basically work in any company you choose (I specialised in a particular industry I found interesting, and am now working for a company in this industry), anywhere around the world. For me it is a career that opens doors to opportunity, which is always great. Blooming hard work qualifying though.

£1.77 per hour for a 35 hour week paid by Government Carer's Allowance Pittance
Carer to relative
25 years experience

Solicitor
London
£130,000 + bonus
7 years experience including training

• Technical writer
• Dublin
• £100k approx including bonuses (converted from Euro)
• 17 years experience
• Absolutely love it, really interesting, varied work, lets me use my technical skills and "professional explainer of things" information organization and writing skills.
• Kind of got into it sideways as my masters is in religious history, then got hired by a company back in the 90s who were sufficiently desperate that they'd take on someone with any technical aptitude and train them on the job, realized I was very good at the techy end of things, got some programming qualifications and have been at the extreme nerd wing of tech writing ever since.

Bus driver, Wild West of Scotland 12 years experience earnings 23000 roughly P/A . Sadly quite a good wage for this area.

Sorry I should have added: the salary quoted upthread would be what I would expect for a job I would take. Actually Chartered Accountants can (and do) command significantly more. In fact DH qualified on the same day as me in the same company and department (guess how we met ), and earns a significant amount more than my FTE. I think my job's much more fun than his though!

Also, if I was still living in London, I would expect at least 50% more than I would in the SW.

EFL teacher - 14K, but only 22 teaching hours a week.

I have an English degree and CELTA. I love my job and view it as a vocation but compete with the gap yahs who cost half the price.

DH is a post-doc researcher at a university.

He has a PhD and still only earns 17.5K.
We are both abroad.

Shocked and shamefully jealous at how high all these figures are.

Forgot the last bit - I do recommend it. I get to professionally argue for a living (litigator).

Comercial Lawyer, In-House
Midlands
14 yrs PQE
£65k pa plus benefits
Degree and postgrad qual, then 2 years vocational training

Corporate lawyer in the City. Circa £100k plus bonus. Been a qualified lawyer for just over 4 years via Cambridge degree, post-grad study and 2 years professional training. I think it's a great job if you are happy to make quite a lot of personal sacrifices and really love law. I'm not and I don't but no-one will pay me nearly as much to do anything else!

I have gone wrong somewhere.... All these salaries are enormous.

Sorry - yes I'd recommend it if you like hard work and often unsoiciable hours (are comfortable with knowing that in private (city) practice you would earn at least twice the salary).

Stars, you own and run a ranch in South America, and your previous career was more interesting?? Bloody hell

General practitioner in Australia
5 years undergrad plus 5 years training
2.5 years experience
Work as a contractor
Approx £200k (2-3 times what I earned in the UK and no Jeremy Hunt to contend with)

Similarly to the lawyer up thread, I would love to try something different (I like my job but get it by feet) but no-one would pay me anything like as much!

Note to self.....in next life choose law over teaching

GP
Leicestershire
9 years training
Working for 20 years
70k

Hospital consultant. Salary £100k plus. Been a consultant over 5 years. Also have small private practice. Trained for a decade post med school. Many many unpaid hours of work. Need to go back to patients now!

Nurse, band 7, been qualified 13 years. I am a specialist nurse and have a degree and a masters both of which I did post grad. I needed 5 GCSE's with at least a C in Maths and English and a health care related Vocational qualification to get onto my nursing diploma. To get to my current band 7 role I had to have a degree and now a masters is desirable at this level. I earn £36k pro rata as I am part time. I absolutely love my job

Head of PR/Comms for a financial company, with a vague specialism in crisis comms - think spin doctor when things go wrong!
Central London
£130k including bonus
Humanities degree, then 5 years in various PR agencies before moving to a FTSE100 for 5 years then moving to here
Love it. Interesting work, get to travel a manageable amount, the hours are not particularly crazy and I get pulled in to interesting projects.

Economic Regulator
Degree and (non-relevant) Masters
3 years exp (many years doing entirely different things)
£52K

My previous exp and law degree got me the job.

It's OK....

Carer for family members, northeast, 11 years experience, £62 pw.

Job: Doctor (Senior registrar- 1 year til consultant)
Location:Scotland
Salary: around £60,000 - 48 hrs a week including weekends and nights, plus unpaid over time, plus professional development time eg reading journals,studying for exams and courses, conducting audits, preparing presentations etc
Experience: 5 years medical school, 12 years clinical experience

How to do it: get good high school exam results, go to med school, work your arse off, miss out on lots of family/ social events, cry a lot, wake up in the night to phone the hospital about that one tiny thing you forgot to mention in handover, put up with the health secretary telling you you're overpaid and lack a sense of vocation, accept a 15%paycut from the above..... ( not that I'm angry!)

Santa in a department store. The money is rubbish but the holiday entitlement is bloody fantastic.

Benefits Assessment Officer in local government (a London council but based remotely)
£27k (but would be less if I was doing the same job for a local council)
Flexitime, 35 days annual leave for full-time
15 years experience

Fell into this after university, although a degree is not required. Would definitely not recommend trying to get into this area now with the cuts to local government budgets, and the welfare state as a whole.

Stars your job sounds incredible!

Job - Teacher (Head of Performing Arts plus teach English)
Salary - 42,000
Location - South East
Years of Experience - 9

Would definitely recommend it. I wanted to be a professional actress/dancer but kids and insufficient talent got in the way and this is the best 2nd best I can imagine. Also a single parent so really needed a family friendly job.