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

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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.

I know solicitor and barrister earnings are unevenly distributed. Might be helpful for a reminder of what a provincial high street solicitor earns and for what hours. Barrister in criminal law too. Completely different to magic circle corporate lawyer and civil law barrister and QC.

@ferretface, I suggested DfE but you're right, would include ALBs.

@JinglingHellsBells
I've never known anyone choose a career based on the minimum salary they want to earn.

I have. And those people are doing well and they’re happy.

I think the right question would be "how did you get the right experience to get you through the door" as there are many jobs that I never seem to find opening for. My degree required experience which obviously as a graduate I didn't have, DH's too (but he got lucky through very hard work) and I know so many other people who do admin jobs instead but even then you still need experience. Even our local Tesco/Asda or the ones farther out have no jobs advertised or vacancies yet, I see people hired. Our school gets new offiice admin staff or midday assistants and dinner ladies but there is nothing ever advertised. When I tried to volunteer I was fobbed off. The different courses for level 1/2/3 for teaching assistants by the LA's adult college require you to already have an employer who won't employ you unless you already have the qualifications When I spoke to other parents I was told similar and even worse "She [the head] takes her own people, from her agency". Even supply teachers were let go because she wanted to enploy from her own agency when the head took over.

Higher Education senior management - but the ceiling is quite low, it's hard to earn much over £60k but the holiday/pension etc makes up for it. It's also pretty low stress compared to some sectors.

@JingsMahBucket I know people who chose or screened careers by salary or just picked financial services/the City.

Depending on your area/ field within social sciences, this might be an option... www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/public-health/roles-public-health/public-health-consultants-and-specialists/entry-requirements-public-health-consultant-and-specialist

It's a 4 or 5 year training programme to become a senior specialist (consultant) in public health, at an equivalent level to a hospital consultant. After training people generally work in local government or regional/ national bodies working to improve population health, usually through improving healthcare, working on the wider determinants of health, or in infectious disease control.

I work in hospitality and earn just under £50k. But that’s years of waitressing shit jobs and working god knows how many horrible hours. It has paid off eventually, but I don’t suggest it as a career change!

I agree that learning a trade is where the money is at now. Trades have full books for a year atm where I am. Just depends if you want to be self-employed or not again I suppose.

Solicitor

Teacher. Overseas so comes with housing, free school places & sundry other perks.

[quote Zilla1]@JingsMahBucket I know people who chose or screened careers by salary or just picked financial services/the City.[/quote]
Exactly. There’s nothing wrong with choosing a career based on potential wages and financial security.

Trades would definitely earn that but I’m assuming if you’ve been working for 20+ years already you aren’t a ahem spring chicken? It’s tough physically to do a trade, especially if you’re used to office work. Plus you’d start as an apprentice on about £100 a week for at least two years, I wouldn’t recommend it!

Teacher - Head of Maths in a large school. I just scape into the 50K bracket though.

Signaller. Entry grade is 30k although its a tough selection process and a very tough training course. Would expect to bump that up by 25% for Sunday working, overtime etc. Aiming to be grade 6 within 12 months which is 40k basic plus 25% uplift on overtime etc. No formal qualifications reqd but they are looking for a particular mindset and skillset which is why selection is so tough

Earn just under £60k as programme manager in the NHS. Fell into the role after lots of administrative work experience.

If I want to go any higher I will need to take on extra stress so not sure that I will do any more moves upwards.

@Endoftether20 what would a signaller be, please? curious rather than looking for a career change. Is it rail-related, person with red flag in front of rudimentary automobile, related to Tory-favourite virtue signally?

G7 Civil Servant. Just over 50k in London, would be just under outside of London. I started 7 years ago and worked my way up from 'EO' grade (starting salary about 27k London/ 24k elsewhere). Just made my G7. We have had people come in from teaching (which might be comparable to your current profession?) and they tend to start at the the grade below (SEO) on 40k London/ 37k outside, but no reason you couldn't come in at G7 for the right job.

I earn around £40k working in online projects for grocery company but OH earns £65k + 10% bonus as a technology product manager for an insurance company in the North West

Senior specialist nurse - highly specialised role historically done by doctors. High possibility of giving evidence in court and a level of attention to detail and risk management that is quite unique in healthcare. Took me 25 years from student nurse to get to this level but I did have 3 children in between and took some sideway and downward moves post maternity leaves to fit around the children. I have another 20 years work ahead of me and I can see myself progressing into super senior and strategic roles within the CJS and health interface.

Senior scientist in the NHS.

My salary is not that high but my pay band is £35k-55k so there’s a lot of scope to achieve that sort of salary here. That’s for a fairly junior role in a government agency. The median salary here is £65k I think.

From my social circle:

Accountant (in a medium sized firm)

Software engineering manager, but has multiple degrees in the area and has specialised in a particular sector, so suspect vv high earner even for that role because of it

Self-employed/Business owner - e..g cleaning company owner where he actually earns a profit from his own employees, doesn't actually DO the doing work any more

plasterer but then that's in an area where it's a lot of older retired people and there's a massive dearth of tradespeople across the board, no one in the area wants to / can do the work so there's a lot of wait times to get decent ones, even shit ones aren't without work

Project manager for an investment bank but regional office, not London.

Started on standard projects, worked my way up to large FinTech projects (essentially Artificial Intelligence).

Project Manager. >100k plus bonus. Not in London