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

Carer, nothing, far too long.

"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."

Yup, as I said above, I had a higher degree in religious history and for a while after I graduated I was variously on the dole, doing short-term contracts in museums, and working part-time in a bookshop. I earned feck-all. I managed to get a foot in the door as a very junior tech writer in a tech company who recognized my aptitude and I learned pretty much everything on the job.

why do people feel embarrassed about earning less or more than others?!

my SIL works as a manager of a well known gallery earning early 30K no way is she happy but she wants to succeed in that area. Her friend a lawyer would love to get out of it and run a children's nursery but needs her salary, has a 13 year old to support and a mortgage to pay and a DP but is effectively a single parent.

I wouldn't be happier earning lots of money for higher stress.

Doctor
Undergrad degree, MA, medical degree, postgrad qualifications
6 years experience + some research time
£28,000 working 60% time ( would be 45k full time). Includes 6 weeks of nights per year and in addition 6-8 weekends plus evening on call about once a fortnight.

My sister is a cleaner. 8 weeks holiday and a good pension. She also works bloody hard for her £17k a year.

Dietcoke dont lie! Jeremy Hunt sAid you dont work weekends.

It is really a bit unfair to attribute success and high pay all to luck.

I was the first person in my family to go to Uni from school (however a few family members had studied in later life). I worked part time through school and university (macdonalds/bar jobs) and then worked after law school part 1, funded my own professional training and studied part time int the evenings while i worked full time in a law firm as a paralegal.

My area of specialism happens to be one that generally pays well, and I realise that might be luck, but I'm the sole breadwinner in our family for various health reasons so lots of stress and pressure.

Yes a well paid job does not necessarily = happiness. My sister was a city lawyer. She hated it despite the pay. She is now a student again and much happier.

YeOldTrout or perhaps it helps to be screwed up. It did in my case sadly, having been sexually abused as a child made me a little more morally flexible with the ways in which I persuaded financial investment (was very difficult to find a backer for the branch I was in) at the very start of my career, I was used to my body being used so didn't think anything of it. I was indecently young at the time too. Still, its all brought me to a place where I'm happy.

InHouseLawyer thank you! Yes I did have some experience in it, I had a smaller ranch as an escape from my previous career when I needed one, so although it was a huge change, I was used to the basics. We have an excellent foreman too whom I've known for a lot of years, so that helps.

Librarian, part time £24k (4 days a week). 15 years at qualified level. Work behind the scenes in a sort of technical role (I deal with technology more than books). Have an MA (and an unrelated BA). As a profession not well paid but interesting.

University lecturer
Would be £34k full time, but I am part time so pro rated
Less than 1 yr experience in this career, 9yrs previous relevant experience in industry
Degree and post grad qualification

I have a great work life balance and I love my job.

Profession: Farmer (also own a number of associated businesses)

Experience: since I could walk / hold a shovel (so about 35 years).

Salary: Currently approximately £150 - £200k a year (very variable though).

Farming is a way of life not a job. The business owns you - not the other way round. Generally poorly paid for the hours worked unless you are fortunate (like me) to have taken on a large family enterprise that is owned outright.

Very hard to get into. You can get a job on a farm fairly easily but to make serious money you need to be the boss and that means buying or renting your own place to start up and land is very expensive.

I have 2000 acres worth approx £8k per acre (you do the maths). To start up a new business and rent this would be crippling , to buy it... well why bother? just retire!
You can start with a small amount of land but its really hard to make ends meet. These days it's very very difficult to balance the books on less that 300-400 acres and an increasing number of farming families just live in the farm and rent out the land to larger farming businesses who can put all the bits of land they rent together to make the big farm required to compete.

As I said, I'm very lucky to have inherited what I have and to have had a father who began teaching me how to run it pretty much as soon as I could walk and talk, I can't imagine doing anything else.

If I came from a non farming background would I go into farming??? Probably not.

Senior Support Worker Adults with Learning Disabilities
£8.30 an hour
Lincolnshire
21 Years experience
NVQ 3 and 5 Health and Social Care

Generally most employers are willing to take on applicants without experience, just need plenty of patience and be flexible.

I didn't say it was ALL luck. I said that luck CAN play a big part in where we get in life.

Plenty of people on low salaries also work ruddy hard for it. As hard as anyone on £100k+ ever did or do.

Consultant in niche childhood diseases field

Just shy of 100K atm

Depends on which way you look at it.. I either started working towards this 24 years ago when I entered medical school and will be working towards it until I stop working

Or I started the day I was plucked out of a children's home at the age of 10 to sit my 11 plus

Stars in the Sky
Wow would love to ask you loads of questions.

Cabin crew here a year off 20 years service.

Part time so evens out at around 4 flights a month....sometimes less in the winter.

13000 a year plus free healthcare holiday and pension benefits are good.

The commission is worthwhile and flight duty pay is on top of basic wage.

I'm on an old contract so still good perks. Not so good to get into these days as much of the work can be seasonal.

Job: Research Assistant at RG uni

Salary: just over £30K

Entry Requirements: BSc

Recommend: Yes, love my job.

Experience: Have been in my job for two years, starting just after graduating, but had substantial relevant clinical experience gained during undergrad.

only1scoop you're welcome to ask, somethings I don't really talk about for varying reasons, but I'm happy to chat about my careers, if the OP doesn't mind. I don't want to derail.

Hi5 - bloody brilliant

My path:
Child of single disabled parent (mental health issues) with an allocated social worker at one point.
Worked from 16 outside school time.
Good exam results and got into oxbridge.
Worked through uni (it was that or starve).
Jobs in call centres and other min wage roles following uni.
Many many applications but failed to get training contract.
Thought sod it and taught English abroad for a bit.
Returned renewed and managed to find a training contract.
Worked like a dog to be kept on.
Never looked back.

Administrator at a day service for adults with learning disabilities
£18,000 per annum. Been doing this a year, very varied work which I absolutely love as I'm not stuck behind a desk all day. I feel like my contribution is useful and valued, but I don't worry about work when I'm at home.
I have an MA (Scottish, so really a BA with an extra year and dissertation) and about 13 years' experience in admin roles for non-profit organisations, but started this position after a 4 year gap to have children.

Job: Part time tutor (a few hours per week) and disabled so relying on DLA

Salary: £3000pa and £3800 in DLA (I may get nothing when it changes to PIP)

Experience: Degree then 30 years teaching experience in my subject

Don't ever get ill because it sucks!

Junior doctor. 5 years medical school, just the 1 year working. Basic salary of approx £23k, plus banding for unsocial hours. Work anywhere between 48 to 80 hours per week, a lot of which are unpaid. Thoroughly exhausting, but I love my job.

Slug - tell me more about that job - Senior Learning Technologist in a University - it sounds great. How did you get into it? Is it full time or academic year?

I am a teacher not looking to stay in teaching long term but education still interests me. I'm not massively techy but can learn!

Complaint investigator in London. Full-time pay is £41k but I'm p/t.

The work is intellectually stimulating and colleagues are all interesting independent-minded types. The big advantage for me is the flexibility. I totally fit work around DS1's therapies and medical appointments and can work from home pretty much whenever I want. I can't think of anything else for similar pay that would fit as well around the DC.

You do need a degree but the subject doesn't matter. Most people gained relevant experience before coming here but others worked their way up from basic admin roles. The most important things are an analytical mind and to express yourself well in writing.