If you earn under 15k?

[yasmeani]

Posting here for traffic really...

Off the back of the current "how much do you earn thread?

Just that really...if you earn 15k or less?
What do you do?
Is it part time/full time?
Is it a stopping gap or a career path?
Do you think you are paid adequately?

I earn just over 10k working part time in a not-selling call centre. Its not stressful and the people are nice.
It was a stop-gap job while doing my MSc, I'll probably stay until the pandemic is over - I don't want to start a 'career job' and then have DS1s bubble burst etc.

Supply teacher - part time. Until the kids start school

Part time. I do think I’m paid adequately.

Suits me due to health and I’m lucky enough to be supported by DP (who doesn’t earn loads but it’s enough for us). We live a very simple, low cost life because of it (no holidays etc) but for us it works.

Teaching assistant, part time. I think the hourly rate is adequate but it's frustrating that I don't have the option of having full time hours and a 52 week year. So my wage is always going to be pro rata. Obviously the holidays are useful with small children, but once mine are older I will be looking into a new career path, one that allows me to earn more. I've done it gor years, long before I had children, and I feel I've wasted a lot of earning potential.

Nearly full time 37 hours retail.
It's a job not a career but at 62 i'm happy. I love my colleagues and it's not normally stressful (current situation notwithstanding). But I am now finding it physically harder so am dropping a couple of hours a week and will continue to do that every 6 months or so.

Sorry I forgot yes I do think my wage is adequate.

Partner just finished a degree and a PGCE for FE and is a lecturer and a music technician at a 16+ college for 32 hours a week. Just over 14k starting pay.

He is woefully under paid for the responsibilities he has.

I earn about £12k, PT, £10ph for a physical, but extremely easy job. I used to earn a lot more, but gave it up to be a SAHM.

I think I'm paid adequately for the area I live in and the type of job I do. I do want to move onto something better and I'm currently studying for a qualification that will help me do that. But TBH, I'm never going to earn big money again 🤷‍♀️.

@daisyjgrey that is not a NMW type job! Why is the pay so low? Will it increase quickly?

I work very hard, long hours in a pub.

I love my job most of the time and I’m very good at it. It was a career path. Until recently, I thought I would have my own pub. I have a personal license etc etc. Now I’m pursuing other options.

I feel adequately paid. It’s sometimes a hard and demoralising job but it’s not important in the grand scheme of things.

Part time. I love my job.

I earn £10 an hour working 25 hours a week as a healthcare receptionist. It's nothing like you see on tv programmes, we are expected to muck in with everything short of actually doing meds.

I used to earn mega money in sales but the fact is (and what I've accepted) is I can't excel in sales on the hours I'm available.

I am self-employed and earn two fifths of sod all. I used to be part time and earn very well but discrimation against carers in the workplace forced me to employ myself.

I am a very nice boss and I'm allowed to take regular tea breaks and MN is I want to, so it's not all bad

@MsVestibule Depressing isn't it.

Yes I think it's a combination of his first year qualified as a teacher and there not being a huge amount of teaching hours available at FE where he is at the moment. If he was lecturing full time rather than splitting hours as a music tech it would be more like 22k-ish as a start.

Hopefully progress through wage brackets will be fairly swift! It's bonkers that he had to have 4 years at uni to earn that amount of money...

Dh is a writer/artist working freelance. Mostly full time but sometimes part time. I am a carer for our disabled 6 year old, 24/7 unless he is at school. Both earn less than £15k.

With Dh it's a career. With me I don't know. I think I should be paid more and I think dh should charge his clients more.

I earned roughly around that much when I worked as a TA in a special needs school.
I felt the pay was fair, we had 9 weeks off a year, I had the holidays off with my kids. It worked well.

Admin, part time. Did earn lots but ex's debt (in my name) meant i couldn't manage childcare costs and continue in my well paid job.

I have no idea what the future holds (with no house, and no pension), but i need to do something, it needs to earn A LOT but i have no idea what I can do.

I'm a self employed farm worker, earning 13k for 2/3 days per week plus lambing time which is a 3 week stretch of 70hr weeks. Im happy, I'm pt so I can be there for my children and my husband earns about 20k in his job so we get by no problems

Part time 2 days a week. Would like to earn more, but I have health issues and my ds has disabilities, so this has to do at the moment. We get by.

Yes, part time. I'm a single parent and I work around school hours. I had planned to increase my hours in September when youngest started school but the industry is struggling and it isn't possible now. Its not particularly well paid, but it's too niche to easily move jobs without changing careers. It's flexible around the kids, it pays the bills and we have enough so it'll do for the moment.

Retail assistant, part time and wellpaid per hour because of my skills. I live a very simple life with few luxuries but that suits me fine.

DH and I both earn about £12k per annum each.
We have a lovely life, nice house, holidays trips out lots of time to spend on hobbies.

How? We are both retired, mortgage paid off and kids left home. Once that happens it’s surprising how little you can live on.

Not sure where the years have gone but you will get there eventually.

£8k, foster parent so 24/7 365 days of the year. That is the money I am paid for my 'skills'. I used to work as a clinical nursery nurse working with children with complex medical needs (on home ventilation/drug regimes/feeding via tubes etc) so I now foster babies with complex needs too. There seems to be a misconception that foster carers are paid huge sums of money for doing very little but it isn't true, I don't know anyone who fosters for the money, we do it for a variety of reasons (mine is I was a kid in and out of care and the care was often not what it should be) and the children we foster often come to us with huge amounts of trauma caused by the lives they have lived so I do feel we need to be recognised for that as lots of us are not allowed to be employed and be foster parents (rightfully so, lots of our foster children have lots and lots of appointments they need to attend and we have lots of meetings we need to attend for them).

Yep, £12k working Self Employed from home right now. Not having to pay out for childcare means it's a good trade off - I really wouldn't be earning any more working full time out of the house and paying for my son to go to creche 5 days a week.

I'm careful with money but we have a decent living! Mortgage free though which helps massively.

I used to be very career driven, but left it all to work in a call centre. No regrets, I love having less responsibility, the team is nice, I can usually choose my shifts, and once work is over I can go home and forget about it.