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

I'm a PMO Analyst in Edinburgh, promoted from an admin role in the same area earlier this year. Current salary is £22.5k but should rise a fair bit as I gain more experience.

I have a degree in Computer Science which definitely helps, but people I work with come from a wide array of backgrounds (some with degrees, some without.)

It's good if you're a formatting/grammar freak who loves organising things, improving processes and nagging people.

Never said anyone 'should' feel embarrassed, just that I would.
OP is probably in a very different starting place from most posters who are currently on £50k+ ever were. It can seem like an impossible mountain to climb, and a lot of getting there can be sheer luck, let's face it. (The good luck of having brains-talent-suportive/aspirational family, etc).

I hope that some of those £50k+ posters were once 18-30yo and still on minimum wage with no especially helpful Uni degree under their belt, either. Maybe they can be helpful by making it clearer how their path developed.

atticuslaw do you work for yourself or for one of those Lawyers on Demand type companies?

I'm another lawyer, but in house and earn nothing like the amounts mentioned by the other lawyers sadly. But love my job and also have very reasonable hours and can work from home whenever I want.

Railway Signalling Design Verifier (intended to be a team leader role); Derby; £45k, 12 years

Recruitment at Apprentices or Engineering Graduate level - it would take most graduates 10+ years to progress to this level. You need to be numerate, logical and pay attention to detail as it's safety critical design. At each level of competence you have to hold a licence do design which you work towards on-the-job, plus various training is provided. Requires nights/weekends/Christmas/Bank hols occasionally but overtime is voluntary and paid. When starting out it's good to be willing to go out trackside (long shifts, all weathers) to help with installation and commissioning because you learn lots.

Other places to look for a similar job include Glasgow, York, Birmingham, Chippenham, Newport, London/Croydon.

Final Salary pensions and travel perks are NOT available any more.

Senior scientist for not for profit organisation.

£31k which is low for what I do but that's what you expect working in charitable sector :)

Degree, MSc, PGDip education

20 years experience in industry, 10 years solid work experience

Love my job but very stressful as always short staffed and very much in demand organisation. Very niche area of work, very much sought after job - took years of voluntary work and study to get here. Not much scope for progression as very few jobs doing what I do.

Totally worth the long hours and stress when I see the positive impact we have.

Key to getting my job - experience and taking every opportunity to learn through voluntary work and extra study.

Teacher
1 year
London
£28000 ish

The thread didn't ask anyone to apologise for their income, hence there are very basic facts stated by most.

However, if it helps anyone to "feel better", when a trainee solicitor after law school (i.e. at age 23-25) I, like many other solicitors, was paid law society minimum wage. £10,850 pa.

My previous job was as a scientist, in a very niche field. I worked for foreign governments at their request, staying usually 1-2 years in each country and working very closely with their senior military officers.
Pay was dependant on the government (Bhutan paid better than Cuba, for example) and on the particular projects I was undertaking, but usually high up in the six figures per contract, all expenses paid and a house to live in.
It was actually pretty glamorous (in a weird 1950s colonial sort of way), lots of attending military functions, senior government dinners, that sort of thing, and it took me all over the world, I loved it and had some real adventures.

Still, ranching pays better and is much more fun .

Career Adviser working with SEND and LAC young people

England

£35k (but PT so £17k in reality)

19 years experience

Oh gosh, I hope no one feels uncomfortable sharing. Even if you are earning £1m I want to know - that is motivation to me ! At this stage , salary is now my main motivator or I'd stay where I am. Please , everyone, feel free to share - no matter how big or small.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2430080-Questions-youve-always-wanted-to-ask-people-about-their-job?pg=11&order=

That the thread that inspired this one

If it helps the OP I started out earning minimum wage gaining experience and did lots of temp jobs to gain transferable skills (such as admin and data entry) which have definitely helped me to have the edge over other candidates who maybe have come straight from uni or only ever worked in science.

I would say these transferable skills should never be undervalued and no job should be seen as a waste of time as you will be adding to your skills and employability.

YeOldTrout that's pretty harsh. I finished my first PhD before most people my age even started uni, so yes that helped me progress, but my life sure as hell hasn't been a ball of roses and I doubt many would want to trade with me if they knew the full details.

Henrietta I work for myself hence the high income. I basically eat what I kill (which in itself can mean life can be pretty stressful). I think my situation is unusual though since I had an extremely good network and a loyal client base which followed me from my partnership role at a national firm. I also work in a field where the pii premiums aren't prohibitive, although to offset that charge out rates are very low.

Admin £16k pro rata north of England, mainly audio typing and reception duties.

Trout when I was 25 I was working in a hotel as a breakfast / dinner waitress, being paid £3.50 ph and working 6am-noon and 6pm - midnight shifts. Did this for a year. It nearly killed me.

I then enrolled at a college to do a professional qualification course, while applying for Masters/MBA courses at top universities. One Masters course accepted me but it cost £20K which I did not have. I went to every bank, did a lot of research and eventually found one that had a loan which I qualified for but then had to persuade the headmaster of my college to give me a letter that he was prepared to offer a job on graduation as this was a pre-condition of the loan. I very nearly gave up.

Of course there was luck involved but by no means has it all been served on a plate. It involved a lot of hard work and resourcefulness. My parents were helpful to the extent that they let me live with them rent free, I could not have done it otherwise. But they tried to persuade me not to borrow that £20k because it was too risky.

I have been skint a few times in my career. Primarily when I started (was on 10K, which was a struggle) and subsequently when I moved house twice. I have only been what I would consider comfortable for the last five years. The thing is, while every thing is rosy now, I could be skint again very quickly if I got ill, or was made redundant etc. Just because you are well off at the moment doesn't mean it's always been / will be that way.

Paramedic, Southeast, £21k plus 25% for unsocial hours allowance, degree entry, 5 years experience and training.

You don't do this job for the money, it's hard work, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes frustrating and there is a huge amount of responsibility but I've yet to have a boring day and I love my job.

trout you sound like you have a major case of sour grapes, I expect the vast majority of 50k posters worked very hard to earn the salary they do. It's not their fault others are on minimum wage is it?

I imagine most of us on this thread have had shit jobs. I used to work in the BHS cafe for £3 an hour.

YeOlde I find it quite offensive that you think a 50k+ salary can in a large part be attributed to luck.

I don't earn more than 50k (and never will now) but my DH is on six figures as an IT Consultant in the City - no university degree, no family support. When I met him he had just dropped out of A Levels and was working in a factory.

His 'luck' consists of 20+years of hard work in the industry. And even his current job is long hours and a long commute. Yeah, all good luck...

No family to speak of. I put myself through university by working in Next, Sainsbury's and a 100 x casual bar/waitressing jobs plus a professional studies loan.

I almost didn't go to the interview which got me my pupilage as I my bank card was declined to withdraw my last £10 which would have got me a tube ticket and an umbrella since it was pissing down with rain. And I didn't own one.

I was fortunate that I did go and got a funded 12mth pupilage - it was a whopping £12k.

After that I frequently earned £25 per day on a fixed fee agreements. I used to have to take chambers expenses (17%) and travel off that. Sometime I paid to work.

I took an in house job after being qualified 5 years earning £40k. When I had two DC I was paying £2400 a month for nursery. DH and I lived on toast.

I recognise I'm very fortunate now but as my pp said I don't have as much work life balance as I would like and I certainly didn't walk into a well paying job without any idea of what it's like to struggle.

I run my own company which is predominantly PR, but also publishing, media handling and communications.
I've been in the industry for about 18 years, in a variety of roles.
To get into it, I studied for an English degree, then had tonnes of learning on the job having started at the very bottom. I always had a flair for writing and am a stickler for grammar and punctuation and I work damned hard so clients definitely get their money's worth.
I work three days a week and earn £60k.

No need to address posts to me.
It's the kind of path that I find interesting to hear about, I'll admit.
I was working min. wage jobs for first few yrs of university, but I'm not on £35k+ now. Maybe I could have gotten on high-earnings path if I wasn't so screwed up in lots of ways. Helps in life not to be screwed up .

My £50k is our only income, so we're hardly rolling in it, although I appreciate that we are better off than others. And yes, I've worked very hard for it (and still do).

starsinnightsky hands down you win most interesting career path.

Can I ask did you have experience if ranching before buying a ranch - I assume it's a bit of a leap if you don't however but you come across as someone wh might just have gone for it