To ask how much you earn

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How much do you earn per anum before tax? What is your current position/job/career? Do you enjoy it?

£0 - housewife now
Before I was a band 3 senior clinical support worker 22.5hours a week (actually at work, probably near the same again at home) approx £10k a year

Age 35, earn 0, job: none because none of them are interesting enough for me to waste my time doing them.

Own business - headhunting. £120k

£135k working in creative dept in advertising. I love it and work 4 days a week. V family friendly company.

£80k Account Director, stressful but work from home so good work/life balance

LasMeninas what do you do with your time instead?

£21,000 specialist nurse practioner part time . Would be £35000 if I could get full time but the hours aren't there atm which is a shame, especially as we are so short on staff

£1,280 a year, I’m a student nurse on a means tested bursary with 2 children. I am on placement for 25 weeks a year and thats 37.5 hours a week. I do nights, evenings and weekends. I love my course and placements i just wish i had more than £100 a month for it.

Why with these sorts of thread does the op never volunteer the information they are looking for? Care to share, op?

Midwife - £19,149 - (30 hours per week)
Lives in your hands and pittance to show for it! You have to love the job, as opposed to the money.

Circa £80k. Another lawyer (4 days per week). Love it as very flexible unlike my city law firm background.

It really really annoys me when people say “I worked really hard to get here” as a supposed reason why they are in a highly paid job. Yes I did work hard with tons of exams and some late nights etc. But I also had the massive privilege of a supportive family background, stable home life and good education etc. Do I work harder than someone doing shifts in a care home? Or someone doing multiple minimum wage jobs and worrying how to provide for their families needs? Of course not. To imply that people in poorly paid jobs just haven’t worked hard enough is ridiculous.

12K before deductions. lvl 3 qualified childcarer with ongoing training (1st aid, child protection, curriculum changes, a lot of unpaid overime and extra paperwork etc etc). technically I can run my own nursery/after school club etc. I've decided to leave as I had been paying for for my own childcare. even as a room leader pay is only about 20p more per hour. manager is shite and doesn't appreciate staff. if I keep up with first aid etc it's something that I could go back into. but I actually just wanna work at local supermarket to be honest. will have break first I think.

25k for 28 hours a week. I work from home creating online resources for teachers teaching English as a foreign language.

12k pa as a TA in behaviour support, working 0.8wte. I love the variety of the job and the 12 weeks holiday. I took the job as a taster after being off long-term sick. Still there several years later.

I used to be a nurse, then an FE lecturer and earned considerably more but I didn't enjoy the stress and red-tape. Occasionally I consider going back, but remember that enjoying my job is more valuable to me than the money.

150K basic plus about 70k/bonus
Pharmaceutical Research. I’m mid 40’s and mostly work from home but travel A LOT! Work on average a 60hr week when not travelling. Never get to switch off, even on holiday phone and laptop come too. I realise I am very lucky to earn this level of salary but it is exhausting never getting any real down time.

Mommaduck this is exactly how I feel. Last year I did extra bar shifts at night to try and bring in a few extra pounds. I felt the tiredness wasn’t worth it as (without being too dramatic) people’s whole lives depend on me being on the ball at work.
I still think nursing is the most interesting job in the world and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else but to work so hard and struggle so much financially seems so unfair.

Dear Inland Revenue, In your dreams.

Own my own cafe, it brings me In about 60k a year after tax. I work four days a week and absolutely love it.

@Slavingerwings thanks for answering my nosy questions .

I forgot to answer! Freelance writer - I work slightly less than FT hours and this year invoiced 21k. Could go up significantly, but for various reasons that hasn't been on the agenda this year.

Very happy in the work I do and I'm fortunate enough to be able to cover the mortgage etc. with enough spare for the odd frivolity. I love working for myself.

I gave up a well paid corporate career that I hated to become a handyperson /gardener. I always enjoyed DIY and I am good at it so I thought I'd try it. I love my job and my hours are flexible and fit around the kids. I earn so little that I can barely pay the rent but I'm hoping to do more hours when the kids are bigger. I'll never be rich but I couldn't waste another minute of my life doing something that made me miserable. Life really is too short.
Good luck finding something you like.

LasMeninas, what do you live on? I always had to work

I run my own company in marketing and earn a base of £45k. I also take a dividend depending on the years success. The most I have taken in one year is £55K on top, the least is £2K. I have been running it for 8 years.
To be honest I could earn £50-60K working for someone else and I often think about it.
However working for myself I'm able to work at a fairly relaxed pace, with moments of extreme intensity. If I was doing the same job for someone else it would be expected that I work at an intense high level consistently. (No thanks)
I basically hate my job about 2/3 of the time so thinking about a complete change, even though it would mean a pay decrease.

But its hard to change career completely at 40+. Anyone done it successfully?

Reading through this thread it's absolutely shocking to see how some of the most important jobs are so poorly remunerated.

@flowers but some people manage to get to highly paid positions without have all the privilege and support you mention. That is bloody hard work. It's in no way a reflection on how hard people work in lower paid professions but many people have additional barriers to contend with that some people from privileged backgrounds fail to understand.

40k plus bonuses.
Sales Manager
It pays the bills.

32k as a charge nurse in an autism hospital, been there 5 months started as a staff nurse and worked up to charge after 3 months