To ask if you earn £50K+ what do you do?

[Poppi89]

I have seen a lot of posts on here where people say how much they earn and I am shocked how many people earn over £50K, so I was just wondering what it is that you do?

Also, do you think it is more important to have a high income or a job that you enjoy?

Wow
Amazing stories off great achievements
Or maybe just good luck.
But lets remember folks just heard on the news a 19yr old has sadly died of the C virus..Please remember others less fortunate .

DH earns a six figure sum as a company director. The money side is great but the downside is that he's never really not working. But he loves what he does and I love spending the money so it's a win/win

Earned over that as a head of department in an inner london school.

Husband does. Project manager. Luckily he enjoys it as well! High income and job satisfaction aren’t mutually exclusive.

Not me but husband is university lecturer

Writer. I love it. I'm know I'm very lucky. (Most writers don't earn 50k+.)

DH is a lawyer but the worst-paid kind; he earns just over 50k in an average year. He could have gone into more lucrative law but he believes in doing a meaningful job.

Neither of us get any benefits. We're both self-employed. We both pay ALL our taxes.

I work in housing and DH is a self employed electrician. Both earn 50k

DH has an accountant, pays all NI and Tax contributions and will get no help from government.

Fortunately I am PAYE and my earnings can cover our outgoings and we have some savings

Our eldest son is on $45 K a year and his wife who works part time around the little one's earns £10 K a year.

He is one of the few who will pay his student loans back. He is a software developer. Has a mortgage 2 young children and whilst not millionaires they have a good life

Same story for our youngest who is a software engineer.

Second son has health problems and is still at home. Our daughter lives abroad and is on about $40 thousand K Canadian dollars a year. She is in hospitality and tourism management.

Our daughter the only 1 I have concerns about with all going on, as the benefits available there are very sparse. I say this re the Covid19 virus. She has lived abroad for 10 years and has citizenship their so it's not a question of her coming home.

Eldest and youngest able to work from home through all this. DiL is laid off temporarily however will get 80% of her wages. We are very blessed to have no major concerns with any of them, accept our daughter

Headteacher - and I love what I do.
It’s really hard work and A LOT of responsibility. I wouldn’t change it for a thing. I personally take 4 weeks off work - I’m in the rest of the holidays and occasionally weekends too.

Police officer. Senior role. Hard work and getting so much harder. But I still feel proud of what I do and find it, in the main, rewarding. Extremely worried for my husband on the frontline and all colleagues in public facing services.

These are really great! Thank you for being so open and honest.

Marketing director, earn well over £50k, closer to £200k. Most jobs are stressful, might as well get paid as much as possible for my time

PA. People tend to look down their noses but a C suite PA has a pretty responsible position. I had access to my bosses emails and was expected to read them and know everything he knee about what was going on in the business and was often asked to fill in and put his electronic signature against various legal and financial documents. I found C Suite too unstable though after a few buy outs/takeovers and now have a much less stressful job on the same salary thanks to my experience. I sometimes miss the high pressure roles and the level of involvement I had but I have since had a child and I just couldn't (or want to) dedicate so much time to work as I did before.

Senior Project Manager for an Oil & Gas company. I’m constantly falling in and out of love with my job . DH runs his own business.

It depends I suppose on what type of person you are / want to be.

Work to live
Or
Live to work

Often connected to education but not always.

I have earned over 50k since my early 20s working in recruitment in London. I loved the job, felt like a bottomless pit of money-and it was all disposable. Then in my 30s, having kids, I felt really skint and sad working long hours and paying over £1500 per month in childcare. My quality of life took a real dent- hitting aggressive targets all day and dealing with dull domesticity by night. Now we live in the rural South West, have our own small recruitment company, kids are all in school and life is much better.

Me: Head of Estates Finance at a University which I absolutely love and makes me very happy. I am a Chartered Accountant
DH: IT Consultant - very stressful and uncertain, enjoys it when he is busy hates it when not and finding lockdown hard

Work to live
Or
Live to work
Often connected to education but not always

I think life is much more nuanced than that TBH.

@hairyxmasturkey yes that's full time. Working 40 hours a week. Managers only get 20p more than minimum wage. I've looked at other nurseries and the pay is the same

Business continuity bod here. Usually love my job but for some reason since the end of January it's been a bit stressful

An other IT contractor! I always loved the work but had a ruff few years of a evil boss.
I sold my house to give me some fallback funds and became a contractor I have never looked back!
Average around 100-150k personally but have other business that are revenue generating.

DH is Finance director in a company with c.1800 employees. He got role at 40 after 17 years of working for same company. he would say it was luck, right/ time place.

Software developer and I love it. Semi retired now 🙂

Why when asked what YOU do, tell us about your DH?

NHS Commissioning. Earned my stripes in NHS operational management of clinical services which was stressful and difficult esp for family life. I have a clinical qualification.