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.

@scubadive without giving you my name and address I’m struggling to say more 😂😂😂

This is very similar to what I do albeit in a different industry/organisation.

Every regulated profession has a regulator to whom you can complain to about whatever service you have received. I’m the person who decides in my organisation if that complaint has merit and if it should move to the next stage (a hearing). I have a statutory function and my decisions are legally binding. But getting those decisions wrong can have huge implications.

www.bmj.com/careers/document/904d16d6-2b0f-45ff-8a39-45214dc3b38c.pdf

@Dontphunkwithmyheart

Haha I suppose if you know you know.

Really interesting! I hope you don’t mind me asking what qualification /skills you need to do this? I used to be a paralegal in defendant medical negligence and really enjoyed it

[quote minimoomoos]@thisplaceisweird yes!! I don't understand how ppl don't get that to be honest. It's like everything...it's supply and demand!! [/quote]
There is a short supply of nurses and AHP with post vacant for years. And still the Tories state that nursing is a vocation and we are not here for the money! Well let me tell you, there is a lot of burnout at the moment me and many of my colleagues and staff working part time due to childcare/health issues and struggling to get by. By paying a decent salary that reflects the responsibility we have maybe more people would think going into nursing? My children know not to choose a healthcare profession

@GrealishHairband

I’m a decision maker. 60k+ for a 4 day week. Really enjoy it but not sure what comes next as am still relatively young in my career.

What's a decision maker?! Who do you work for?

@Fairyliz

Surely you need people to say where they are working? Clearly salaries are a lot higher in London than elsewhere in the country. Where I live you are doing extremely well if you earn above £30k.

House prices and rent snd travel are bloody astronomical in London. So the tiny but extra we get is swallowed up. Don't fret!

Plumber. Seriously. I'm not one but honestly if you have the ability to train.up they are worth their weight in gold. I've been trying to find one for 3 months to come and sort my shower out
I'd offer my body alongside payment but that's too decrepit and saggy to be of any interest.

Oh and window cleaner- ours cheerfully told us on his last round he'd been so successful he'd bought a bar in Bali and was off to adventures new.

It's not all about academia which is nice to know.

The DWP's Find A Job site is not comprehensive but usually has around 100,000 jobs listed (at time of writing it's 179,238) which you can filter by min/max salary and location (at quite a granular level).

findajob.dwp.gov.uk/search

Can also filter by jobs that are part-time (at the bottom of the page) or badged as Disability Confident (near the top of the page). I think you can probably get a good sense of what jobs are available in your location (or elsewhere) at a rate of over £50k.

My very general suggestion is to grab copies of job descriptions and person specifications that might interest you, even if it's not a job you'd go for now - to keep an eye on what areas you might need to develop for your next-but-one job.

Should anyone be interested in collections of adverts / descriptions / person specs for jobs in either science communication or computer science I have a couple of sites here where I 'trap' them.

scicommjobs.wordpress.com/ - science communication jobs
• £50-60k - scicommjobs.wordpress.com/category/salary/50k-to-60k/
• £60k and over - scicommjobs.wordpress.com/category/salary/60k-and-over/
• £70k and over - scicommjobs.wordpress.com/category/salary/70k-and-over/

techdevjobs.wordpress.com - computing / tech / dev jobs
• >£50k - techdevjobs.wordpress.com/category/salary/50k/
• >£60k - techdevjobs.wordpress.com/category/salary/60k/
• >£70k - techdevjobs.wordpress.com/category/salary/70k/

I'm slighly in awe of people who have the ambition and wherewithal (tolerance for dressing smartly, early rising, sustained mental effort, forbearance in managing people) to do the kinds of jobs that attract the bigger salaries. I think I'm from a different species ;)

Jo

My DH earns around 65K and works in IT, service delivery. I am a teacher and I earn just under 30K.
Go for a job that makes you happy, I have a better worklife balance than he does... ironically.

@Introvertunited Hi, if you please could share more of the opportunity that you mentioned that tech orgs look for other skillsets. I am a mid career academic and would much like to know the other opportunities available outside. If you would be so kind to mention some of those companies and the name of the roles please, I will be so grateful. MN didn't let me PM you thinking I am a journalist/market researcher

@JeanneDoe

Finance. £100k. Plus maybe a £20k bonus. London. Hard as it might be to believe outside of the London bubble, it’s peanuts in comparison to most people I started off with. But I had a family and changed my role. Had I stayed in the trajectory I was on, I’d probably be making 4 or 5 times that now. Don’t regret it though. I hated my old job whereas this one is a lot more palatable.

Same here. I earn six figures working 4 days per week with no overtime expected beyond the normal 7 hour day and no management responsibilities for anyone, just doing my own thing. I worked incredibly hard in my 20s (80-100 hrs per week) but now prioritise my children so career has taken a back seat and tbh I'm happy where I am. Interesting, no stress, decentish salary. I need some headspace just to raise my kids and coast (I'm a single mum). My boss has meetings all day, I have maybe two per week. I'm happy with what I'm doing now! It would take a lot to make me want to change it. My answer to going for promotions atm is a flat no!

I earn £54k as a mobile crane driver. Took me only a couple of weeks and a few grand to get all my licenses and had two years general hgv driving experience when I got this job.

@chachachachachange Not all healthcare professions are bad? And going private is usually good money. Physios, OTs... they aren’t on bad money?

I'm in London and earn £170k and probably a £45k bonus. Not guaranteed but likely. My role is something similar to a COO, for a medium sized data analysis company. Five years ago I was on mid £50ks, same company, but at director level with a much smaller remit than now. Worked longer hours then than I do now.

Sorry, should add that is with 20 years experience. So have worked my way up steadily.

Within the nhs all healthcare professionals and nurses share the same pay scale. We are all band 5s, band 6s and a few band 7 (team leaders/ ward sisters).
It’s not so easy going private. A lot of competition and a lot of investement if you open your own clinic (then you can only charge a max of 50 pounds per hour of work depending on your area so not that profitable)

@fayebelle my husband is an NHS consultant. A couple of years ago I had to take him a spare set of contact lenses because a patient was bleeding so much the blood went in his eye. Clinical enough for you?

Most recently he’s been head to toe in PPE looking after critically ill Covid patients.

That’s not to say nurses aren’t underpaid or under appreciated, they are, but let’s not decry the people who the buck rests with overall. My husband earns every penny in both hard work a d vast amounts of responsibility.

People saying teacher. Don't do it. It takes a while to move up the scale and even at its highest on the main and upper teacher scale, it takes 8 years to get close to £40 outside of London. To take on more responsibility, specifically leadership, it means your hours can be dictated and more can be expected of your working pattern.

As a teacher, I work in excess of 60 hours mid week and a few extra at the weekend. Doesn't sound like the time scale you necessarily want?

I don't for a moment think some of the other job suggestions won't expect long hours but they may, perhaps, be a different kind of stress? A different kind of appreciation of staff?

@Glera

People saying teacher. Don't do it. It takes a while to move up the scale and even at its highest on the main and upper teacher scale, it takes 8 years to get close to £40 outside of London. To take on more responsibility, specifically leadership, it means your hours can be dictated and more can be expected of your working pattern.

As a teacher, I work in excess of 60 hours mid week and a few extra at the weekend. Doesn't sound like the time scale you necessarily want?

I don't for a moment think some of the other job suggestions won't expect long hours but they may, perhaps, be a different kind of stress? A different kind of appreciation of staff?

Definitely. DH was a teacher before getting in to IT. He's now more senior than he was as a teacher, gets more than double the pay and half the stress. The lack of that pressure definitely makes up for the loss of holidays. We once worked out his actual hourly rate based on how many hours he actually worked and it was about £2.69.

Senior in heritage sector. £70k

@SourAppleChew do you have to go away over night frequently for that role? My DH is trained and interested in that but after years of going away for months (military) I was hoping he'd find a civi job that didn't involve going away too much!

I work in marketing, which pays surprisingly badly. Until you get to a senior position and then it pays very well. I am now a General Manager and my salary is between 111- 135k depending on whether I get my bonus or not.
Took two degrees and 20 years to get here.

Maybe the people suggesting teaching have had a different experience? I imagine the school you work in, and their policies, have significant impact on this.
I work in a schools with generous protected periods for staff with responsibilities, a culture of meetings starting and ending on time - with no meetings for the sake of meetings, and no pressure for presenteeism.

I don’t work on weekends (and don’t ever intend to!) or late into the evening. But I do like to get into school at 7.30am to have an hour of quiet focused work. Surely lots of people working in £50k plus jobs start work from 7.30am? When I factor in the holidays (I’m going away for over 3 of the next 6 weeks), I think that a teaching post with leadership responsibilities if work recommending - if you work in the right school.

^is worth recommending - if you work in the right school.

Oops - blinded by the beautiful sun today

What qualifications do you need to work in finance?