To ask what jobs you do that earn 40k/50k plus

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As DD heads to FT school, I'm reconsidering my career. My existing career as a teacher has a salary of around £24,000 - £28,000. I am unemployed right now.

I'm wondering how quickly I can study and what jobs I can quickly move into that will bring big money.

Primary teacher with TLR in an academy, current salary is just over £40k. Although it's as far as I can go without going on the leadership scale.

Even if you increase your salary in another career much of the increase will be eaten up by paying for childcare during the long school holidays. You should stay in teaching and develop your career there.

I earn more than this as an Assistant Headteacher in a large inner London primary school. There are lots of opportunities for progression in teaching, especially at the moment.

£40k as a PA in London with 20 years experience. High workload and difficult bosses. Not for the faint hearted!

Senior uni lecturer.

I work in digital marketing. The industry is booming at the moment so salaries are rapidly increasing as agencies fight for experienced teams.

I started 5 years ago straight out of uni with no experience on £16k, I’m now a head of a small department and earn £41k and I’m 27, live up north.

My next rung on the ladder will earn £60k plus and I’ll hit that in about 3 years time.

The industry is crazy quick for progression if you’ve got a good head for it.

Contractor - IT Project Manager.

£45k as en executive assistant (secretary). 20 years experience, central London. Think the firms starting salary is £30k with couple of years experience.

50K here, also a teacher. But I´m as high as I can go on the salary scale. Do you not have potential to go up in salary within the school system?

I work in communications. Lots of ex teachers around as lots of transferable skills.

Teaching - HOD/HOY/SLT earns the same or more than that.

Area manager for a large chain

Become a plumber?

Or Digital Marketing as PP said. But you will need an aptitude for that as well as training.

I'm a teacher and earn £42000
UPS3 plus TLR2

If it were that easy, we would all be doing it!

Drugs dealer?

Quantity Surveyor. Was earning the bottom end of your bracket with about 8 years experience. No degree just an HNC funded via the company I work for. You'd have to start at the bottom though (experience counts for an awful lot) even with a degree you'll be starting on less than £20k

Dh is a teacher on circa 50k.

I work in prof services PT, 60k FTE.

Can you progress your career in teaching, would seem easier than retraining?

I’d say stick with teaching.

My friend had a £40k starting salary as a lawyer in central London after 2 years on the GDL.

Physician associate is £30k starting salary going up to £48k, it's a 2 year masters programme but you need a life science undergrad

My brother makes similar to that as a web developer (also in central London). He has a degree in physics and taught himself everything else.

I earn that amount and i'm self employed, I set up my business 10 years ago.

My DS earns that amount as a developer. He has a BTEC (no degree) and has been working for around 5 years and he's in his early twenties.

We buy and sell commercial vehicles and plant machinery from home which probably makes around 60 between us and I also breed French bulldogs, a couple of litters a year, which usually makes between 10-15k per litter, that money is mine though.

I am mortgage free with a large property at only 32 because of coming out of my divorce well but I do have lots of outgoings as I have lots of children and lots of animals! And an obsession with designer handbags and jewellery

I'm surprised people suggest becoming a solicitor. It costs a fortune to get the qualification, and typically people have to spend time as a paralegal earning a pittance before they have a hope of getting a training contract, which in turn normally pays less than OP is earning now. Yes, there are high salaries available at an early stage in corporate law, but there is fierce competition for those positions and there is a distinct advantage for candidates with relevant background experience - which teaching isn't.

Very hard to know what career to advise ds1 to go for.

Executive assistant. I was earning that by my mid-twenties.

I’m so grateful to have found a role that allows me to support my family and enable my partner to be the incredible SAHM that she has always wanted to be. At the same time, I can not recommend the job to anyone who wants to be an equal parent in raising their children - if I am lucky, I see mine for a few minutes before I leave the house each day and I return we’ll after bedtime. At the weekends, I’m constantly on my mobile either talking with my boss or actually working - there are always things to be done. When he travels, I work in his time zone as well as my own - he needs me, but so does the office and the people with whom I work/supervise. There was a time where my boss was waking me up more than my newborn twins (and I went back to work two weeks after they were born, because whilst I could possibly have handed my working responsibilities to a temp, it would have damaged my personal relationship with my employer).

I love it and derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from being very good at it, but my colleagues joke that I’ll be dead by 35.. and I’m not sure that there isn’t an element of truth in it!