To ask how much you earn and what you do?

[99BehaviourProblems]

Looking for inspiration for a possible career change and I’m also really nosey curious about what people in different jobs bring home - I still have debts and bills to pay!

So I’ll kick off since I asked the question...

I make 70k gross working part time. DH is on 150k and works full time. We are both the scum of the earth lawyers.

Anyone else willing to share?

£60k PA - Data Protection Specialist

£19.5k full time.

£13k term time only receptionist in a school, the grief I get for every £1 of it makes me question if it's worth it!

A&E consultant - £100,000 PA

You are extremely fortunate to make 70k part time. There are t many other jobs that would pay that and allow part time working, and most would require years of training and experience. Given you have debts and bills, I guess spending a decade retraining or taking a huge paycut isn't really an option. Thus, the vast majority of people on here, even if they post their jobs and salaries, aren't going to be of much help.

I earn similar almost full time ( but not school holidays), but my job took 7 years of full-time study, including a doctoral level qualification, and years of experience. It's very enjoyable but complex. I don't get much in the way of lawyerly perks, there's not even a corporate biscuit tin.

Hi OP. Have you considered in-house law?

Or company secretarial work. That commands surprisingly high salaries. The hours are generally less gruelling than conventional law.

I have a small teacher’s pension and am too embarrassed to say how little it is. But I live frugally, have no debt and some savings for emergencies. I cannot wait until my state pension kicks in in three years’ time . Another six or seven grand a year will be a nice boost (WASPI woman) though being three years older, per se, is not such a great prospect.

Thanks so much for the helpful replies. I would’ve loved to go into medicine, neuroscience and psychiatry/psychology really interest me. But I genuinely think it’s too late for me to retrain in those areas.

The law is becoming a little boring as I’ve been doing the same thing for over ten years now.

I’d like a change to something a little more flexible due to the children and wanting to spend more time with them.

I would ideally like to do something that wouldn’t involve a substantial pay cut but I know that in order to get a more family friendly job this isn’t a realistic expectation, so I’d be happy to go down to around 40-50k, so some of your responses are very helpful, thanks. I have also thought about starting my own business but I have absolutely no idea where to begin with that! Any advice would be most welcome.

Included DH’s salary in the hope that others might do the same and give me some idea of more roles that are out there. Providing for the family is a team effort after all!

You might think on our salaries we have plenty to put away each month and shouldn’t be in any debt, but we still have a massive mortgage and have recently undertaken a considerable amount of house renovation and extension. So that’s our main debt really. With a pay cut we could still manage to continue to pay off the debt by reducing our other expenditure - fewer holidays and less eating out for example.

Thank you again for the replies.

I have considered in house law, yes @theoldmanfromup - but feel like switching it up altogether! I find most of the legal roles I’ve had have been very similar even though I have worked in different departments. Thank you for the suggestion though!

Being my own boss would be the dream really! (I know, who wouldn’t love that!)

I am also in the legal profession. My dream is to open my own business ( not related to law)

Midwife. £30k full time. You're welcome.

If anyone comes here with a family friendly flexible job between 40k - 50k after only a couple of years retraining then I'll quit my job as well! Took me 3 years of additional study and 10 years of experience to get there

Veterinary Surgeon- full time. 35K

International HR director - 90k. Basically employment law at this level

There was a lawyer on a thread not so long ago who set up her own business and is now a multi millionaire. She wasn't to specific but it involved a niche area of law and providing training courses for it.

to=too!

I was a lawyer for 10 years (magic circle, then large regional when we left London). It made me miserable in the end and it wasn't flexible. I did apply for a couple of in house jobs but my heart wasn't in it any more and I was ready for a change. I joined a civil service graduate scheme and now work in a govt department. My work involves a lot of the interesting aspects of legal work (interpreting and applying legislation etc) but no chargeable hours, billing or late nights. I would never go back. I am not in London and my FTE salary is just over £50k - it would be a bit more in London although there are moves to shift a lot of civil service roles out of the high cost area of central London so that might be a consideration. Feel free to PM me if you want more info.

If anyone comes here with a family friendly flexible job between 40k - 50k after only a couple of years retraining then I'll quit my job as well!

Me too!

I think you’d need to go into a job using your legal expertise in some capacity to achieve that salary PT.

No point me telling you what I do & earn ... I am way too underpaid!

Oh 27k at council

I bring about 4k as a carer part time

Just admin, pt, £10K pa. DH: 26K engineer FT.

But our mortgage is only £400 a month so we have a spare 1K per month for spends or saving.

It's all relative, isn't it?!

I think you're being a little unrealistic OP. You must know that lawyers are often amongst the more highly paid and at £70k part time I suspect you're either at a decent firm in the regions or in a smaller firm in London. It isn't going to be easy to match that elsewhere

I want to do what you do @99BehaviourProblems to earn 70k a year part time! Please send me an application form!

Retired, £480 per month.....

20k
Nursery manager

Thank you all! It’s lovely to see the variety of jobs we all do.

In all honesty I would absolutely move to a smaller firm if I didn’t find the whole profession a little dull now. I really like the people I work with and have always had supportive bosses/mentors, to whom I owe my success in this career. But it’s the work that to me feels unsatisfying and unrewarding now. I feel it’s run its course.

So if I move I think it would be exciting to do something completely different.

Thank you @Lightsabre I’ll search for that thread for some more inspiration!

@emsyj37 That sounds fantastic, and good for you! Thank you for sharing your story! I’m going to look into something similar. How long was any study/training period?