To ask what you do and what you earn?

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Apart from the fact I'm curious, making a career change. My heart is in midwifery but the pay is bad. I'm money motivated so know I could do something I'm less passionate about if it meant more money.

Currently doing an access course.

£28k Deputy Ops Manager for a smallish call centre. No degree. Up north.

Without further training I think I've probably hit the glass ceiling for my progression but I'm okay with this. I'm not that career focused or money oriented.

I have the intelligence and the capacity to go higher, just not the mentality or the mental health.

@Cailleach I write software for Warehouse staff

Inliverpool1 I own my studio so yes and i take 50% of my employees' hourly rate too (but provide their supplies). I want DD to go into law, as my solicitor's £250 p/h fee dwarfs mine!

Editor, 43k but live in London, lovely job but can be quite stressful, lots of perks though including holidays.

@MrOnionsBumperRoller I also know lots of burnt out lawyers

PA/EA £44k

Paramedic bottom of band 6. 30k as standard, 38k with unsocial pay and then time and half overtime when we're late off nearly every shift.

@Pardonwhat I've got 18 months to decide which route to take I.e. nursing or midwifery.. but I'm not sure I'll take the risk in relying on it being there. Some universities have definitely stopped offering it.

TryingToBeBold

Absolutely your choice.
But like I said I’ve read - and been personally told by the course leader at a university which offers it - that there is no truth in it being ‘phased out’.
Also, doing nursing with a top up is much easier in terms of getting on the degree. Midwifery 3 year degree is ridiculously over-subscribed.
Good luck

Just realised my post might read a bit rude - not intended! Just trying to give some pros and cons!

Around 80k for working as a management consultant. I've been with the same firm for nearly 20 years, and I'm definitely an anomaly - most people either leave or get promoted in that time. So why do I stay, and why are my employers happy for me to stay?

1. I stay because I do get access to interesting work and opportunities. The internal politics are horrific but if you are mostly on projects away from the office, you can avoid most of that. And, to be honest, I am very unconfident of my ability to find another job that will allow me to pay the mortgage and live a reasonable life at my age (mid-fifties) - not because I am bad at what I do, on the contrary I am pretty good at it, but because AGE and all that.

1. They're not, especially. I'm old and expensive. So while on the projects that I work on, people tend to value what I do, my employers as a whole don't. I do have to be quite careful not to put myself in the path of HR action.

Admin £18k

18k a Year starting off rising to 20k
999 call operator
37.5 hours a week

Junior Marketer 20k a year 37.5hrs a week. I work from home so it fits in around childcare fantastically.

@Pardonwhat no offence taken! It's a bloody hard decision to make. I guess it just depends on if the uni nearest to me offers it and the logistics of travelling to one that does.
Thank you though

I work from home as a translator, 20 hours a week, 24k

Own business in Constructon industry. £100k in salary and dividends.

Data manager. NHS. 22k

Midwife with 10+yes PQE. I earn £43k pro rata & am in a very specialised field. I work no anti social hours & manage a couple of days a week working from home. I know only 1 other midwife in the U.K. doing what I do.

I've left the NHS. It is the most awful organisation to work for. My advice to anyone thinking of training or currently training is get out now.

Solicitor. London 72k (non-corporate)

Retail 22k

Hoping to go back to uni to become a physiotherapist

HR Director, £150k

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@Isawthesignanditopenedupmyeyes

I’m a GP, work 5 sessions a week and take home £1490 a month, so the same as a band 5 nurse. I trained for 10 years to be a GP. My salary is standard for a salaried GP

Out of interest how many hours is a session? How can you only earn the same as a band 5?

Replying to above- a session is 4 hours 10 mins on paper but in reality I work about 25-30 hours a week for my 5 sessions and take home pay of £1490 a month.
It’s falling that people think GPs are earning megabucks, and as a partner it would be more.
Although I am going to check my tax code after seeing this thread as my take home pay is the same or lower than people who have posted working in nurseries and nurses for similar hours!!

Software development, 40k on 30 hour week, 50k otherwise