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.

Teacher

Secondary teacher with whole school responsibilities (not London) - takes time to work up the teacher pay scale and then you get a TLR for additional responsibility. Some of my colleagues tutor to top up salary so this could also be an option if you have time.

I love my job - but cannot stress enough how important it is to find a school that is a good match for you. A lot of teachers grumble about teaching or leave the profession when sometimes a different school environment would make all the difference.

I work for the UK Border Agency, I have many years experience. I’m part time and earn over 50k.

Operations Manager.

[quote Zilla1]@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?[/quote]
The best way I can describe it is air traffic control but for trains! Regulating movements, making sure there are no conflicting movements, 1st point of contact for drivers for everything from trespassers to Bridge strikes, broken rails to organising line blockages for track work

Cyber Security

Customer Success Manager - £80k + base plus bonus. Bloody brilliant job, based from home, and opportunity to travel loads in a non pandemic world. I love it.

@DIYandEatCake

I have to admit, I’m reading this thread utterly gobsmacked. I honestly had no idea so many people earned so much. It must feel amazing to have so much money coming in. We’re comfortably off (partner and I earning around the figure being discussed between us, no debts, own house, savings), but are careful and haven’t had a foreign holiday for over 10 years etc etc. Starting to think I should seriously think about sorting my (non-existent) career out - mind slightly blown this morning!

It's all relative though isn't it. I don't feel wealthy at all.

Team manager, IT consultancy.

@DoylyCarte and others in CyberSec

Whats the best way to get into this? Before I got this job I was looking to go into it (eventually want to go into Forensic IT) but all the training that was listed came from shoddy learning websites for 5K+! I self taught CompTIA A+, Net+ and Sec+ but I would really rather some on the job training!

I work in IT projects at the moment and on a really decent salary for entry level (36k) but want to work my way in to my desired career.

I have to say that I don’t think I can come back to UK salaries now I’m established in Switzerland. Most other ex-pats of almost every nationality feel the same.

So you could always consider re-locating, OP!

And @RisingSunn if you can help with my post above :)

Account Manager in tech in a specialism I know lots about. Its quite technical sometimes but being able to talk work out issues is also really important

£65 pro rata I work 4 days but I think I do the same amount of work as some of my colleagues (I don't have 20% less clients) but I don't have to work one day per week.

@elprup

Small independent high street shop proprietor, perhaps?

@Zilla1 I'm not sure that sort of role has ever been hugely well paid has it? The difference is that house prices used to be far lower, so you could work in a job like that and afford a mortgage!

Oh I don't know about that. My grandparents put my DM and uncle through boarding school as owners of a grocers in London in the 50s. They were definitely hustlers (ended up investing in property, always small business owners rather than working for someone else) but ultimately that was their main source of income.

Team Manager of an Adolescent Safeguarding Team.

Social work.

My dh is a tradesman working in the film industry. Works for a big production company. Live NW but he works SE

Not me but DD is a Teacher, Head of Maths in a deprived area in the North Midlands and earns £50k, her partner is in IT, specifically Data storage and earns £55k.
DH is a factory engineer (supervisor level ) and earns £55k.
DD definitely has the hardest, most stressful job, next week can’t come soon enough, she’s on her knees, exhausted. I see her every day as I take care of 2 year old DGS.

This thread makes me feel very sad. I'm an analyst (more junior level, although I pretty much manage myself) in the public sector and earn half as much. I'm in a right rut with my job and bored out of my mind, but struggle to find the time to learn new skills. I get paid okay for what I do (no people to manage), it's flexible and I currently WFH, but I'm so knacked with working full time, domestic stuff and looking after kids I don't have anything left at the end of the day to learn anything new. I wonder how did everyone find the energy to progress when their kids were young? Did they just wait until they were older?

I'm not overly confident and hate speaking in public, so have spent my life holding myself back. I have a degree in a statistical subject too, but not a hard science, so that's probably where I went wrong!

Should have left university and trained in accounting......

I.T., but I don't live in the UK (when I did live in the UK I was able to earn more than 50k as a contractor)

DH is a train driver, 54k

Started on 24k training
Now 2 years later on full money.

35 hour working week and currently on paternity leave (6 weeks).

£65k as a team manager in a niche part of the property industry. Needed 10+ years experience to get to this point though, as it's still quite a technical role rather than purely managerial.

@LBOCS2 oddly it was a grocers and a hardware store I had in mind. I know incomes and costs and property prices make a comparison difficult but I recall people who were the proprietors of single site small stores being relatively wealthy from income (children in private school, foreign holidays) in the 80s when the equivalent now say they take home less than the shop floor staff who are paid minimum wage.

Software engineering.

And you can get into this late. Tech is keen on career-changers, bootcamp grads and the self-taught.

I’m a big fan of graduate programs, maybe look into that? They often pay £30k pa for two years, my grad got £49k after the program ended. There’s no age limit, he didn’t join us straight is straight from Uni, they provide great experience across many parts of the organisation. Engineering/finance/IT look at the larger vendors or multinationals.

@SmashingBlouson read my earlier post! Sector in need of people like you. Also the OP. Loads of companies recruiting right now