To ask what your job is if you earn £50k plus

[CareerInspirationRequired]

Just that really!

I'm in a job that I fell into many years ago. Its OK but I'm bored. It's a professional job that many people would think earns about twice what it does. I'm on approx 30k (people are always shocked to learn this) and will be forever in this job (no real promotion open to me). Its a sector a LOT of people want to work in and in which some people will work for free. The result is we are actually paid very little - and people outside the sector are always shocked by this.

I'm considering a career change, but have no ideas what to. So if you're earning 50k plus sell me hour career. I have a degree, an MA and I'm sure lots of transferable skills.

London based Nanny on £75k. Looking after 3 kids.

Sales at a startup. There's a big push of promoting tech in northern cities. Plus early stage companies are more open to transferable skills

software sales

Social worker (locum), I earn over 100k net at £42 an hour and £200 tax free expenses per week. I work in a frontline team and all my cases are child protection and court work. It is absolutely horrendous, the workload is insane. The turnover is huge, even paying that kind of money people stay for weeks not months (often days!). They can't recruit and they can't retain due to workloads. Nearly everyone is locum. Hell.

My husband is a Managing Director. Salary around 95k

Family:
(1) bid manager for one of the departments of a global company, but based in the north. No relevant qualification, was a writer for 3yrs on the team then due to luck + proven talent and skill earned promotions.
(2) Accountant for a national retail company, hit 50k due to restructuring and now managing the team

IT Programme Manager for NHS - contract now, but 20 years in local govt and 20 years in NHS
Came through technically based as network and IT Manager and segued into project/programme management
NW London based
Started as a PA many moons ago

A few of my friends and relatives are. Project managers, manager in a hospital and doctors. All under serious serious pressure, when I think of them I think of their job as their job defines them iykwim

DH is in IT. He did a conversion masters and was on £50k within 2years. SIL is a university course coordinator and lecturer. I'm a social worker by qualification but currently working for the NHS in COVID related planning, sort of project management.

Not me but my husband is a senior actuary

I know a few solicitors, barristers and doctors who also earn way less than people assume. I know some pretty penniless criminal lawyers . The pay and hours are disgraceful. They could easily be on less than 30k a year, in London, on unsociable hours. And I don't quite understand how the pay structure works but some GPs don't earn much either (though some earn a fortune but I guess it depends whether you buy into a practise or are a locum etc.)

@TheyWentToSeaInASieve

I've taken on ex academics as marketing writers as they tend to be experts in their fields. So if you are a strong writer, it might be worth considering getting a few freelance assignments to see how you feel about that? While many writers don't get paid well, those willing to work hard to retrain are always in demand.

@CareerInspirationRequired this is a really good post by @TheyWentToSeaInASieve. I have a friend who’s a scientist but she’s now pivoted to being a copywriter and marketing writer for other scientists and scientific institutions to help them translate their work well. Like her, you’d be able to tap your existing network for projects very easily.

I am an editor for a scientific journal.

@Grimacingfrog

Well...I fell into it or rather threw myself into it.

I probably have 5 years of experience in total which isn’t much however what I do have is the complete determination to succeed.

I didn’t start on a typical career path, I was involved in setting up a help desk as my hiring manager could see I’m good with processes and improvements. When GDPR was on the horizon, my manager was told she would be responsible for it and I essentially grabbed the bull by the horns, overnight did research worked out what would apply to us and where we should start in getting up to scratch. And I was allowed to run with it. I designed our privacy programme, paid for an IAPP training course myself. I absorb information very well, I’m very interested in processes and governance so it just appealed to the natural skill set I wasn’t aware I had.

I was underpaid considering the work I had done but not underpaid for what my actual job was. When I realised the potential of what I had done over the past couple of years I started looking elsewhere and got myself a role in the public sector. FOI was new to me but I grasped that fairly quickly. Essentially what I do now is improve things internally, find weak spots, change the way we do things. And I’m accountable for anything and everything data protection wise. The jump from my last job to this one was huge, I was lucky they took a chance but it’s worked out for them! I have quite a passion for all things data protection related

Quantity Surveyor

[quote Zilla1]@Veronika13 have worked with a couple of career changing doctors who started medical school in their 30s. That said, they are vastly outnumbered by those doctors leaving the profession entirely, emigrating or leaving clinical practice for health start ups.[/quote]
Yes it's okay to start whenever you wish - what I pointed out is whether the OP is prepared to spend closer to 10 years to finish med school and then training.

I’ve worked in the heritage sector as an Estate Manager on over £50k with accommodation and bills provided too. Additionally I’ve worked as a PA to a very high net worth couple on over £50k too. These were both in my mid/late 20s so achievable in a short amount of time. Both outside London but in the South.

I work in retail - many years as a Buyer now transferred into Strategy & insight. I am on £55k but could be on much more (circa £80k) if I pushed for promotion or moved to a different company - I don't want to at the moment.

If you are good with numbers data science is a burgeoning industry - every industry is craving for data led decision making, insight and analysis

Solicitor. You read a law degree (or a law degree plus a year's extra course/exams), then study for a year's course and pass the exams. Then train for 2 years whilst paid and then qualify so takes either 6 years if you read law at university or 7 years if you did not. I work for myself.

Newly qualified lawyers (after those 6 / 7 years of training/learning) in the biggest firms start on about £90k rising if made an equity partner potentially to £1m to £2m in a few cases, BUT most lawyers cannot get those jobs as they are not good enough, or lucky enough or their exam results are not high enough so plenty are on much less.

Solicitor here too. I’m on a bit over double £50k working in house.

User experIence research. Its not for the faint of heart though, you definitely need to be able to make (expensive) decisions based on little data and a lot of experience/theoretical background.

My new teaching job in September will be just over 50k. Inner London weighting and some leadership responsibility.

Technology consultant. I used to work in healthcare and wanted a total career change. It wasn’t that hard to do as lots of transferable skills but i networked a lot in this field (easier to do if you live in Central London) and found a mentor who took me under his wing and helped train me up. 3 years later earning £130k+ bonus

Im surprised its not Doctors that are a common mention here.

I thought most earned around £50-60k once qualified?

Maybe its not paid as well as I imagined

@TakeMeToKernow What type of surveyor? I’m rural and over £50k is reasonably achievable in a short space of time. Many include paid accommodation and bills too. Grad scheme started at £30k as there is a shortage of rural surveyors. We graduated uni 5 years ago and one friend who is particularly good has just started on £65k.