Please tell me where all these cushy, well paid jobs are...and how I can get one!

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Working in health care ...love it but high stress, poor pay. Not getting any younger.

Someone on the work thread said they know lots of people in cushy, well paid jobs. Posting here for traffic...where are they?!
Disn't have to be interesting or worthy...just cushy and well-paid!

well I just offered someone newly qualified in my field a package worth £90k a year for a wfh job in my team. Seems mad to me but it's an employer's market at the moment, so perhaps look into some professional qualifications if that's of interest.

🤣 yes!

Check the charity job website, there is a big range of roles available as well as hybrid, remote & on site jobs.

https://www.charityjob.co.uk/

By private sector l, I meant both private hospital or an organisation connected to healthcare, eg a wellness technology company like better me. You have experience of working with people, customers/ patients, knowledge of the sector and how the patients behave, suggestions on improvements etc.

There are plenty of those in every race including mine.
Very unhelpful comment.

What’s well paid? Wondering whether to post.

I’m On about 100k but it’s not cushy. I worked bloody hard to get where I am.
and sure it could be worse, I could be earning 30k and have to see customers or do physical stuff and I work from home with lots of flexibility to look after my many kids. But it didn’t come easily and I am very stressed. I would take less money for less stress.

If you're already in healthcare, look into moving across to the clinical research industry. Much better pay and a lot of remote roles available (even before the pandemic).

Have a look at CROs such as IQVIA, ICON, PPD...

They're in IT

I suppose I did work hard in the early years but these days it's not so hard. WFH full time, £70k-£80k a year (depending on performance etc). Fairly flexible hours, so long as I am online for the main-ish part of the day.

I agree with a pp, though: what's hard for one is easy for another. I find this job easy but many would struggle with some of the politics or how some of the more cliche engineers behave. I know someone who works with young autistic adults and is regularly hit or pushed or has to clear up faeces etc. They would not cope with business politics but love that job. I could not handle that but don't mind this.

The real crime is that I earn this salary while they earn less than a 1/3 of it for a their role.

The cushy, well paid jobs only exist in the parallel universe which is MN. All the people I know who earn mega bucks be it a cushy job or otherwise have worked their butts off to get there and quite frankly look and feel old before their time. A friend of ours was earning £200k but has just died at 55!

My ex was in one of these. Great first job out of college. Quit it because he didn’t like the people there (I suspect he was fired but who knows) and would constantly get into arguments with his boss. Miraculously was offered an even better paying job shortly after that whole saga by someone he used to play lacrosse in school with!

I never know what's a high earner and what isn't.

Here in Cornwall if you aren't being paid NMW for a job that requires a degree - you're supposed to feel grateful! Even if it's just 50p more per hour than NMW. Recruiters call £10.90 a "competitive salary"

I always thought £50k was a good salary. But probably pre COL Crisis....

Is £100k a high earner now?

Seasalt invited me to an interview for a job that was for £20,500 ish and they wanted me to do a presentation and double checked that I had a full degree. No WFH allowed either 😂

I'd love a cushy well paid job...

I suppose by "cushy" - I personally mean a job you don't take home at night and lie awake panicking about all night long.

I recently suffered from burnout and require something low stress. Which I don't think exists.....but if it does - please let me know 😊

I doubt there is such a thing as a cushy well paid job where you don't need years of laying the foundations and gaining the experience and skills that makes you effective and makes it feel "cushy".

Everyones perception of "cushy" is also very different. dh thinks my job is "cushy" as I do most of it chatting to people on zoom whereas his idea of hard work is physical.

My DH does projects and he very much earns his 125k + benefits

This year I’ll earn over £300k and it’s easy and I’m part time (yes, really). 19 professional exams whilst my kids were tiny, not so easy.

Most cushy, well paid jobs take years of education and then paying your dues in the lower ranks as you acquire skills and experience that justify your salary.

You have to start with the education. if you work in healthcare, your best bet is to leverage your existing education and skill set.

I am in that position now, too, but I am highly qualified, still work hard and have to be expert in my field.

'Cushy' to me means I sleep at night and do not get stressed outside working hours.

I'm on mat leave but usually a PA for a director of a naice company. I'm usually just on call during the day- sometimes I'm only needed to do coffee runs or book meetings/flights. Sometimes we fly to events together and I'm there just in case. It's very cushy and VERY well paid. My bonus one year was enough for a deposit on a 5 bed detached house near London. I'm late 20s for reference. And I'm on my 5th baby so it's flexible too!

As a young adult I worked in marketing and outreach for a small business and earnt £20 an hour for basically just emailing a few people and hiring people to do adverts for us.

I have core subject GCSEs at A*, one a level in digital marketing and a miniscule qualification in sewing!

'Cushy' to me means I sleep at night and do not get stressed outside working hours.

This is a good point.

My 70k-80k job now is cushy by that definition. It very, very rarely stresses me after about 5pm.

BUT I moved to it from a £150k job that was not. It was a job I did or thought about for about 18-20 hours a day. Many of which were staring at the ceiling stressing about it.

For me it's been far easier to take the pay cut, still earn OK and have my sanity back.

Go on refinery 29 money diaries, no one works a full 8 hours, lots of trips to the gym, baking and meals out. Always seem to be paid well.

It depends on the industry and a large helping of 'who you know' and/or how well you are at sucking up to teacher.

I've slogged my arse off in engineering for 30 years but my job is neither cushy or highly paid.

My main drawbacks were being a single parent for over 10 years so I missed out on extra training, travel, overtime etc.

Plus I've never worked out how to network or such up and I'm crap at office politics

Being a woman in engineering has also hampered me. Men don't trust my ability. If they didn't do a degree then they feel threatened by me and either give ne all the administrative jobs or ignore my ideas.

Originally I was studying law - really wish I'd stuck with that industry

If you’re in health care have you not looked into aesthetics? You have to work hard to grow the business but very lucrative and you make a fortune

I don't think there are any cushy well paid jobs. Well there are, but it involves years of blood, sweat and tears go get one .

I think there are still some around. I know someone who's in a reasonably well paid job in banking, despite having failed their maths gcse (and almost all their other gcses). Very attractive though.

My job is exceptionally cushy and relatively well paid.

I work as an event organiser for a charity. Obviously not going to name it!!

I get over £50k for about 20 hours a week, working flexibly/hybrid.