To be pissed off that the only financially viable profession nowadays appeares to be banking?

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As a disinterested teen, my dad arranged for me to do work in a bank...i found it exceptionally dull and I really hated Maths at the time. Turns out I should have pursued it as it one of the only professions that allows people to afford a decent quality of life nowadays.
I love my job in the nhs but may have to leave health care as I need to afford to live.
I will encourage dd to go into finance but it shouldn't be like this should it?

Yanbu-other professions should pay properly.
Yabu- banking is the best paid career choice...more fool you for not pursuing it!

Depends what bit of finance.

The real money is in data

Many high paying jobs have this as part of it

You can make a lot of money as an Independent Financial Adviser in mortgages/pensions/life cover. I am training to be one, having got out of retail buying. You just need to spend a long time building up a client bank first.

Are there any highly paid jobs for people who don't like maths, tech or sales, but are good with language/writing? I'd like a career change and to earn more, but have always been an arty/languages/bookworm type drawn to jobs that help people or anything to do with books. Would still like to earn more, especially with COL!

YABU, we are academics and manage, DB is a tradesman and has a multimillion pound company (he learned to install heating/water system that footballers seem to love) Dsis is a childcare professional admittedly in Isreal, other Dsis is a administrator, Dad has a market stall and Mum does books for him and others. All managing quite happily.

But you think you'd just pop along to a tech or research co' and suddenly become 'something' in AI that pays megabucks?

Neither, you either live in the wrong part of the country or are very high maintenance, I work for the NHS and I’m definitely not saying pay and working conditions are great but we live a modestly comfortable life

I agree, and I work for the NHS! There are many issues with the NHS and with pay when taking into account inflation and globally what pay is like for healthcare workers; but its not terrible for qualified roles (it's bloody awful for HCAs and many admin staff). A lot of people assume other careers are sunshine or rainbows or that you can just walk into a higher paid role with better prospects in a completely different sector which is arrogant and ignorant to be honest.

Sorry but what a load of cobblers

Well I don't earn £350k, but I do earn considerably more than DH and have for most of the 25 years we've been together.

Neither of us work in banking though.

DH and I both work in the public sector, and have a combined income north of £150k. (Neither of us have specialist degrees such as medical).

Similar here - both of us public sector and earn well (not quite as high as 150k but combined in the region of 95-100k). I do have specialist degrees, however, and earn just over 57k a year. DP doesn't have degrees for his job and earns in the region of 40-50k (overtime dependant) - he is also public sector but not NHS.

I see. I see you must have felt picked on which was never my intention and maybe should have used 300K ( was also mentioned recently), but my point stands and it is an important one.

I would just like to read more of that on this website which is full of threads of women being 'abused, taken advantage of or whatever you want to call it' and that's my opinion.