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

Another not so high paid job here,

Quality Control admin. £20K per annum, about 20 years experience in a couple or so places.

9 to 5 job with not too much stress and a reasonable working environment and I can forget it when I get home.

Qualifications: ONC & HNC Business and Finance; Diploma in Higher Education; Certs in MH, Health & Social Care, Counselling

Experience: Accounts Clerk; Stock Controller; Assistant to Production Director; Part time voluntary counsellor; Manager & Owner of Coffee Shop

Current Job: Carer at home for husband, had to give up work 20 years ago

Current wage: £62.10 per week.

Specialist role in the town planning profession, based in local government.
London
£35k
Masters, postgraduate professional qualification, plus professional chartership required. 10 years experience.

I would recommended it for the variety and interesting day to day workload but not for the pay or the contact with the public who are mostly obnoxious even if you are trying to help them.

Solicitor, private practice, north of England.

I earn £40,000 a year plus pension contributions. Am 12 years pqe.

I got here via the usual route of Oxbridge degree, law school and training contract with large well known firm. Now work in a smaller firm - am poorly paid compared to some lawyers, but I at least know what my family looks like. Even so, it's an extremely stressful job and if I had my time again, I'd do something else.

Administration
No quals necessary beyond basic gcse
13 years
19k
I hate it and I'm leaving to go back to uni in a couple of months

oh yeah - qualification - 2:1 in comparative social policy - Masters in Guidance

Payroll Manager, £45k, London, 16 years experience. No qualifications.

I love the work and would recommend it to someone who loves organising data and is a good communicator. You need nerves of steel at times and a strong moral compass. It's very satisfying work and you get to use your brain. The downside is that nobody takes any notice of you unless you get something wrong - and then it is a very big deal indeed!

at some of these salaries!

Such an interesting thread! Is anyone else at the salaries that PA's and nannies are earning?

University academic in Scotland for ten years
£40k
BA, MA, PhD needed--total of almost 8 years training + 1 year temporary contract before landing permanent job.
I echo what's been said by otherspermanent jobs are hard to come by, you have to be willing to move anywhere. It's a lifestyle more than a job. I love it, but you do need a think skin and be absolutely single minded to 'make it.' Academia is also rife with mysoginistsnot the bastion of liberal thinking that people imagine. Having children means (in the words of a colleague) you're not as dedicated to your research as other people.

IT Solutions Architect/ Product Lead
London £550 @ day
20 years experience. No formal qualification although some industry courses eg Prince2

I enjoy my job and think anyone could do it. It's not hard.

HLTA (infant school)

Yorkshire

Abt £19000 pro rata (39 weeks a year, school hours only)

I officially need a level 4 ta qualification but I am actually a qualified teacher, worked as a secondary school teacher for 10 years so have a teaching degree and QTS.

Recommend it - yes, I love my job. But it's only really possible because I have a week paid dh (another solicitor on a good six figure salary) who supported my move out of teaching a few years ago.

Junior doctor in my final year of training in paediatric intensive care medicine
Basic pay is £40k with a 50% banding supplement as I work antisocial hours at high intensity. I work on average a 48 hour week so my hourly wage is around £25/hr.

To get here - 5 years in uni, 10 years postgraduate training (including 4 exams, numerous compulsory courses, documentation of and evidence of everything I've done on an online portfolio with annual review to ensure I'm allowed to progress with training), an acceptance that I will often have to work late/extra shifts either for clinical or non clinical reasons (I'm starting a 13 hour night shift at half 8, but need to chair a meeting at lunchtime so won't actually leave work til after 1pm)

It's a fantastic job, very hard emotionally and physically at times but every day is different, challenging and interesting and the satisfaction when all goes well and a parent thanks you for keeping their baby alive is worth all the crap.
It is demoralising being told that our laziness and unwillingness to work a 24/7 week is leading to patient deaths by someone who's wilfully misinterpreted data though...

Solicitor Partner of firm in NE England

3 year law degree, 1 year law school, 2 years articles (training on the job. Qualified 18 years.

£125k - £165k pa partner share

Love the legal part of my job (seeing clients/going to court) not so much the management side. I feel very fortunate but do feel constantly responsible both at work and at home. I am a worrier though.

Is it just me, but are other people a bit bemused that so many are prepared to give personal information that potentially may out them?

Software engineer. 15 years experience. 3 day week, just shy of 30k (so just shy of 50k full time). SE.

I'm underpaid, no question (though extremely lucky to be part time in this industry so swings and roundabouts) so after years of not seeing proper payrises have developed my own system of giving myself a bump each year by becoming more and more efficient (changing commute times, never working unpaid overtime, taking lunch hour, breakfast/shower at work (saves cleaning at home!), increasing pension payments, leveraging holiday allowance .... if anyone has more suggestions in all ears!).

I work in manufacturing (just factory work) and have earned anywhere between min wage to my current £25k p/a (inc shift allowance) this is bottom grade and will go up to around £36k very quickly.

I'm up north (Yorkshire and north west)

I work shifts (days and nights) averaging 3 12hr shifts a week so lots of time off but can work Christmas/new year, and I work every other weekend and regular nights.
Opportunity for lots of well paid overtime

I have (Poor) A-levels and 3 years manufacturing experience.

I love my job and would recommend it, thought its not for everyone.

I work with a great team, I have a huge variety of skills, from the planning/time management, engineering, problem solving, data entry and interpreting, even laboratory work- though it can be repetitive at times, some people HATE factory work; and tonnes of transferable skills if I decide to change jobs.
Some places are more manual than others, and sometimes the conditions are very hard to work in- potentially very hot or cold, or wet/smelly. 3am is a hard time to concentrate and the responsibility at my current place is on par with doctors. If the product/packaging is wrong it could literally kill thousands of people.

I am lucky enough to work for a fantastic company right now though I have worked for some dodgy ones.

I wouldn't want to work solely office based, or 9-5 mon-fri.

It has warmed the cockles of my heart to see so many women doing so well in their careers. I'm not just talking salaries but job satisfaction as well. I salute you all!

Name changed for obvious reasons.

Uni Events Office
Yorkshire
£21k
Entry requirements vary but either a degree or a lot of marketing/admin type experience.

Yeah, it's a good job. I like it. Universities are a good place to work. I like the students. I like the academics too but they are all actually seriously truly fucknuts mental.

Oh, I have about 18 years experience with several time outs and some experience less relevant to current role than others.

I don't believe a lot of these responses or else I'm the only non lawyer on MN

Another academic

Professor
25 years experience in three countries
Bachelors, Masters, PhD
5 books written & published
60 hour week minimum hours
£80k pa
No perks other than a pension scheme they're now decimating, and a small travel allowance which I have to supplement from my own pocket even for trips the university requires me to make.

After reading this thread, I no longer feel I'm overpaid, or even paid adequately really, in terms of my qualifications & experience, for a professional career.

Lucky I like my job (mostly)

Family Support Worker - local authority, South west
No qualifications but in house Child Protection training etc
Worked my way up from receptionist to youth worker and now family support for families in crisis.
PA apx £21000 but I'm part - time.

Student recruitment officer at a university- £53k (I'm in Australia so based on earning $80k here)
Did the same job in UK for 7 years and earned £20k.. Wages are much better in oz for my job!

I like the academics too but they are all actually seriously truly fucknuts mental

Attitudes like that make my job harder ...