I know iabu.

[ReRegRhonda]

I just want to moan really.

I went to uni to get a specific degree so I could get my job, where I have to then do years of training and further qualifications and be assessed again before I can have this job. The money isn't brilliant but it's a job I want to do.

My step brother has an unskilled job which pays 10k more than mine. My brother's gf who is 19 has just interviewed for an unskilled job and got it, the pay is about 2k more than mine.

I know I sound jealous and petulant but I worked for years to get on the course, got through the course and am in the middle of training for this job but it pays lower than those two. I feel a bit cheated.

I suppose I'm asking aibu to feel annoyed that they are on a higher wage than me while I've worked so hard for years to get where I am and they don't even have gcses

Would you want to be doing their jobs?

Will your career pay more as you progress?

I think YABU, and condecending.

What do you do? In 10 years time, where will your pay be compared to your step brother and your brother's GF?

How ridiculous, you made your choices & they made theirs.

I suppose the argument is that you must have known the likely pay bracket before you decided to have the career you have chosen. You either aim to have a vocation you love or head for a career that pays. Thems are the choices, it's very rare to have both.

Yabu of course you are. They have picked jobs that pay more. You knew your job wasn't well paid when you started on your path. Did you expect it to magically change?

Or did you assume that being 'unskilled' meant you wer only allowed o earn a merger amount and always less that someone who has studied?

TBH, I know how you feel. When I started my first post-university job, it was in the NHS and was less than half of what most of my peers were getting. But it was a job I wanted to do. My siblings had no qualifications beyond OND level (at that time), and yet one of them had gone into computer programming (NOT something I wanted to do) and was earning wads, while the other one was working in retail and earning slightly more than I was.

Depressing how little we got paid to do the professional job we did that kept people alive, frankly.

But I still preferred doing that job, despite the low pay - just felt it was a bit shit that the job was so undervalued.

YABU

No-one's forcing you down your chosen career path are they?

You can also go for an unskilled highly paid job if you want to.

It boils down to deciding what's most important to you: pay or the satisfaction of doing the particular job you're training for. If you're committed to the thing you're training for, then hopefully doing that work will be fulfilling even if you're earning less than others.

There's not much correlation between pay and skill in a lot of jobs - nurses and mental health workers are a good example.

If you're so intelligent didn't you check and decide if you'd be happy with the rates of pay?

Trying to think of an "unskilled" job that would pay £10k more than a professional one. And yabu

Well, I know. It's just jealousy really. I don't know why I let it bother me

I too would love to know what the 'unskilled' jobs might be.

'The money isn't brilliant but it's a job I want to do'

There's your answer.

You look at this as a 'job' and not a career though? Will your salary not increase much?

Not much really

I know I sound jealous and petulant

Full marks for self-knowledge, but YABU and you know it.

Maybe you should consider changing direction or some kind of sideline which may pay more if you resent it before you've even started the job. You may find any difficulty in the workplace makes you say 'fuck this, I don't get paid enough for this' resentment doesn't get smaller with time if you feel under valued.
You already know you are being VVVVV unreasonable to resent the wage of someone who's not doing the job they love.