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

Agreed Trout. The average UK salary is supposed to be £24-26k. You wouldn't guess from this thread! I wonder if it's self-selecting.

Another academic (RG lecturer) on an unmpressive salary (£34k).

BA, MA, PhD

Constant out of hours work but maybe that's just my day time inefficiency. I like my job but if you worked out hours worked vs. hours paid it would be sad.

OP, where is the other thread that inspired you to start this one please?

not sure I can say anything helpful because I've done several jobs. What I will say is that I have found the environment the critical factor, I'm an introvert, terrible at politics and not a fan of team working - good at it, but dislike it. So I am now in an admin type role with elements of stakeholder contact, but it's an unusual one and a bit of a find as I am not surrounded by too much chat. I make about £28k. I'd really like to make more but every other job I see that makes more involves in working in a corporate place with no flexiblity or home working. Those two things are more important to me than the field - I see working as a way to make money, but I'm sure I'd feel differently if the work world was more geared towards introverts.

Forgot to say regards to my job - there are various routes in. Some of my colleagues left school at 16/18 and apprenticed to councils or HAs as trainee Housing Officers or Admin staff; others came from all kinds of different backgrounds. The most important criteria are an interest in the sector, a good all-round skill set and decent experience in similar organisations. Many of my colleagues have a degree, though I've rarely seen one listed as an essential criteria on a job advert and know as fact that a my organisation would hire somebody less qualified if their face fitted than somebody with all the right certificates but little passion for the sector. Most of the people I've worked with during my career have similar career paths as I did: starting in Admin or Customer Service and gathering skills to move upwards.

Research scientist
North west
£27k
Undergrad degree and PhD + 9 years experience
Wouldn't recommend it - science is massively undervalued and underpaid

trout and reallynot the OP asked for all salaries, not just those earning within the median range so I don't see why she or anyone else would find those posting higher salaries offensive or embarrassing??

Academic GP, Northeast.
£48kpa for 26 hours pw (plus lots of unpaid overtime, in common with all medical jobs).
5 years medical school, then 4 years GP training, then a further 5 years clinical teaching and research experience and a Masters degree to get to my current position.

I enjoy my current job, and it fits better with family life than most medical jobs (which is a bloody good job, as DH is an NHS consultant in an acute speciality) but I put in years of very long hours to get here.

It's great if medicine/ medical education is your vocation, it's very interesting with lots of project work and high autonomy, and I do enjoy getting to know both my patients and my students. For me personally, although I'm happy with where I am now, I'm not sure I'd do medicine if I had my time again - it was very much a head over heart decision for me, and with hindsight I think I should have been braver and done a subject I was passionate about.

Crikey I'm gonna be a lawyer in my next life, some of the salaries pp's earn are making me jealous!

Facilities Department Head
Salary - 50k
London based

Have a totally unrelated degree, some self funded vocational training. Easy to get into and can work your way up quickly if you are prepared to work long hours.

Maybe I never said it was offensive, I just said many seemed to deviate from the average!

Oops forgot to add experience, 8 years.

By the way, clinical academics are (unfairly in my opinion, but that's market forces for you...) paid a lot more than non-clinical for similar level work and qualifications. If you're interested in doing medical research and enjoy working with people, I'd highly recommend doing a medical degree and going into research through that route!

Policy/Project Manager
non-London University.
£46k
Undergrad degree+ MA
17 years FE/HE experience

Good holiday (33 days+ bank hols+ 3 closure days at Christmas). Final salary pension (until next year, when it will be downgraded to defined contribution, but still pretty good). Flexible working - I work from home most afternoons.

I think I'm incredibly lucky with my job. I work hard and am very good at what I do, but realise I'm incredibly fortunate, and that if I lost this job I would probably never get anything as good again.

Self employed trainer, writer and recruiter.

London.
£ varies but around £70k.
Entry requirements: officially none, but it's taken about 15 years of experience to get this far and I'd recommend getting experience as a headhunter (which is fairly easy to do without any specific qualifications although many like you to have a degree). Going self employed is scary but the flexibility for a family (which is why I did it) and money can be great.

Marketing Manager in the South East. £43k for 4 days a week.
Humanities degree and Marketing diploma (but I did the diploma whilst working). 13 years experience. Turned down a London based Director role to spend more time with my family. Was the right decision for me.

I work in fund management in the City.

I do not want to mention specific salary but it is in line with the lawyers.

I really enjoy my job. I love financial markets, the industry is very diverse and I get to meet so many different people. Every day is a different challenge. Many opportunities.

On the flip side, it is a really stressful, highly competitive environment. Hours can be very family unfriendly and there is plenty of travel. Very male dominated too.

How to get in - I did a good degree then got on the graduate program of f one of the investment banks. Stayed with them for 13 years and worked my way up. Really hard work with at least 12-hour days and not many weekends free for the first 5 years. Downhill from there.

Investment management is actually relatively family friendly in comparison.

Band 6 midwife

2 degrees. 5 years as a nurse, 7 as a midwife.

Full time. 30k. Good annual leave entitlement.

Nights, weekends, bank holidays, christmas. No chance of getting any career progression. I'm getting to be surprised when I get paid at the end of the month. Won't get paid any extra for working antisocial hours for much longer. In 5 years when the NHS is bankrupt we'll be expected to do it for free.

PA
London
65k including bonus
Fell into it after dropping out of uni and still wondering what to do when i grow up - however that said - I love the company I work for and my boss who is fab!

Nanny, sole charge, Central London
27k inc bonus + car
I only do 32 hours a week though, which for a nanny are pretty short hours!
22 years experience, no qualifications except Paediatric First Aid - I started as a Mother's Help and worked my way up.
I would recommend it as long as you really like kids - lots of people seem to fall into it as they think it's an easy job - it's really not. I've loved it, and have been lucky enough to work for some lovely families. I'm at the stage now though where I've had enough, and I'm currently doing a degree with a view to working in Youth Justice eventually.

Underwriter, East of England; £30k fte. Will be going p/t after mat leave. 9 years exp.

I have no qualifications higher than GCSEs so all training has been on the job. I really enjoy it although it was not a job I had ever planned on doing (only figured out what an underwriter actually did about 6 months in).

Community Mental Health Nurse-Band 6
London
c£36K
12 years in this role, 22 years post qualifying experience+3 years training+4 years Health Care Assistant in similar role.
It beats sweeping the streets. I'm burnt out and looking forward to retirement.

Another solicitor
Midlands (home based)
Currently circa £250k for 4 days a week (so £310k ish FTE) but this fluctuates since I'm self employed (this level of income is not the norm for lawyers outside of the city).

Degree, law conversation course plus legal practice course (law school) and two year training contract. 15 years post qualification experience.

I love my job but most lawyers I know hate working in law and the hours for most are incredibly long and stressful.

HR assistant in public sector in the Midlands
2 years relevant exp including temping before this role
£18k

Advice..temp with agencies to get your foot in the door, I had only waitressing experience before temping

Why should people feel embarrassed for posting trout ?

I think it's really important that women, especially mothers, understand the range of options open to them.

As my name (change) suggests I'm an in house lawyer for a multi-national.

I earn mid six figures based in London and although the hours and travel are crazy and my goal this year is to be more balanced I do really enjoy my job. The diversity and talent of the broader team is inspiring and I like the intellectual challenge.

I studied law, qualified at the bar and worked in chambers then took a low paying in house role so I could shift to another speciality.

I took 5 years off to have DC, took a consultancy role and then ended up in my current role - a case of right place at right time as much as anything. In total I have 16 years experience.

Senior administrator, 100k, northwest

Qualified PM but fell into this 2 years ago - I love it, I spend all day making (big) numbers add up

I'm a nanny (full time for one family)

£30,000

3 years experience, no qualifications

I LOVE it, and have so much fun going to the park, farm, train rides etc