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.

To elaborate on my own experience:

Degree in Business/Marketing/PR - prefer marketing and PR, enjoy persuasive writing
PGCE - taught business/IT in schools and colleges

Spent many years chasing the elusive permanent contract, have done several years on supply and two in pay scale above NQT.

Have been out of work for 5 years to raise family, worked on admin and marketing for DHs business but lost confidence in my marketing skills. I am not a salesperson either.

I have worked well with teaching employability and picked up ICT skills when I had to learn it to teach it but mostly Microsoft programmes - good with Excel.

Not generally good with numbers!

Losing confidence, attracted to teaching due to family friendly hours but know from experience it's not as family friendly as you would think.

Marketing appeals but as stated, I've lost my confidence - I know the theory inside out but that's a different beast.

I work in PR.

Surely at an independent school you will earn more?

Any job that pays 40-50k will not have family friendly hours.

Mine does, blue

I find it the other way round to be honest. When I was struggling on minimum wage I had a hard time if the children were ill, no sick pay, early mornings, late in the evening.

Now life is so much better!

Nothing public sector .

^^ True!

Oops! That was meant to be to blue’s comment!

Any job that pays 40-50k will not have family friendly hours.

Not true! As above, I WFH as a part-time, freelance editor and earn around £60K p/a

I make my own hours, meet friends for lunch, do all school runs and feel much like a SAHM, but with an income.

If you think outside the box, you can find a job to suit your lifestyle.

I find the same as immortal - I am senior enough that I can leave early/ work from home/ book leave at no notice. It's much more family friendly now than when I earned a quarter of the salary as a junior.

That's why I am always when posters' DHs are far too important and well paid to manage to make it home for bedtime.

In my experience a min wage job ends at the end of your shift and if you’re absent they can replace you, whereas a salaried 50k job demands overtime and you're important enough that they often can’t spare you.

That's why I am always hmm when posters' DHs are far too important and well paid to manage to make it home for bedtime.

with respect that is a really silly thing to say.

Not all jobs enable someone to work from home as and when they choose. When my DCs were small, DH had a job as a project manager and was managing 150 people. If they had a bid to get out, he had to stay and sometimes worked till 9pm.

You're also forgetting people in medicine where they can hardly bugger off at 5pm in the middle of neurosurgery or a transplant.
I guess your experience of the working world is quite limited.

I WFH in Business Development and Marketing (medical industry) and earn around 4 times your salary. When I was earning 40-50k, I’d say I was about 4 years into my career and first tier management.

I tend to agree with some of the other posters saying your best bet is probably to use the skills and qualifications you have to progress your career within that industry (if you enjoy it, of course!), rather than trying to start anew. This is likely to take longer. There will always be exception through, I’m sure!

I am senior enough that I can leave early/ work from home/ book leave at no notice. It's much more family friendly now than when I earned a quarter of the salary as a junior

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so what sector are you in RiddleyW? some kind of admin or local government maybe?

My consultant surgeon neighbour comes home every lunchtime to walk his dog. They dont operate 7 days a week you know .

Sorry that was to @queenofthenights

Worked as a PA and earnt £45k salary was £35 plus £10k bonus that was in the city a trading firm

But little job satisfaction and pandered to egos

Now earn £30k and money will improve over the years but will take time and I love my job and actually feel I am doing something beneficial but I’m struggling financially this is down to childcare costs

I think you do need to think about job satisfaction along with what you can earn

@Fefifoefum

You could train as a biology teacher - science teachers are very thin on the ground!

so what sector are you in RiddleyW? some kind of admin or local government maybe?

I'm an in-house lawyer, private sector.

Stripping earns that as a starting salary and has surprisingly child friendly hours.

PGCE - taught business/IT in schools and colleges

Ah, that explains a lot. As I’m sure you’ve realised, I’m afraid you’ve qualified in two of the subjects hardest hit by the introduction of EBacc. Both business and ICT (as distinct from computer science) are quietly dying a death in secondary schools. There are few vacancies and most teachers of these subjects are having to develop a second subject if they don’t have one already. If you could offer computer science your employability would shoot up overnight.

A good friend of mine has a similar background to you and left teaching for various personal reasons. She now does comms and PR for a multi academy trust, particularly their teacher training programmes. Her teaching background is a distinct advantage and although it’s not a term-time contract she is able to work flexibly or from home in the school holidays. Might be worth considering.

@Mayhemmumma are you serious?

I'm an in-house lawyer, private sector

So, paperwork mainly and talking to clients, arranging meeting to suit yourself much of the time.

You don't have appear to have any idea of how other people's careers do not allow them to follow such family-friendly working for much of the time.

If you worked in industry where there were bids to get out the door for deadlines, orders worth £millions dependent on that, you couldn't scarper off home at the drop of a hat or take leave as and when it suited without working it round your colleagues.

No one in teaching, the health sector (unless a private consultant), and lots of other professional roles, can just work from home or take time out at short notice.

My consultant surgeon neighbour comes home every lunchtime to walk his dog. They dont operate 7 days a week you know .

Really? oh I thought they did. How kind of you to point that out :)
Coming home for lunch is not exactly the point is it? we're talking about people being able to work from home willy-nilly and being able to leave work to fit in with family commitments.

I was a nanny and earning over £40

To expand on Riddeys point, I think every job I have ever done has required an enhanced DBS (apart from a job in a biscuit factory once which I ran out crying from because there was a rat) and when I earned a pittance, I had to pay for my own.

It is all wrong really.

Sooty, I suppose it depends really. If someone is charging £50 an hour with low overheads if they do it from home, it’s oretty well paid.