If you earn 100k plus, what is your occupation?

[CJ2010]

I've posted this here as it is a bit U, but i am curious to know what jobs pay mega bucks.

I've just been looking on a jobs website at admin jobs, most are paying on average 20-25k (in London). With the cost of living as it it, that sort of money will not go far at all.

I've been a SAHM for a while now and have begun looking for work. I'm considering retraining, but only in something that pays well!

So members of the 100k club please spill the beans and let me know your secrets!

A lawyer with her own niche firm? [hmmm] As you say, why so coy? Or maybe she would think I was just . But really I'm not. I have recently discovered that I am a millionaire . Problem I have is people like her who think they are amazing because they have money . I am not amazing, I am just lucky to have had the opportunities I have had when I have had them (also it is DH's money) .

By the way he was an investment banker.

Gosh, of course I don't think I'm any better than anyone else. We're all just people. However not enough women pick well paid careers and far too many end up in dead end stuff whilst their husbands earn the money and we need to work very hard to reverse that.

(I don't think I have discussed what I do on another thread. I try to be anonymous. it's bad enough on this thread where people are joining the dots and saying they read XYZ elsewhere etc. There's no need to do that. it's like someone saying I was at a real life mumsnet meeting last week and user name ABC is called Miss Jane Smith in real life and she works in Woolworths in Hull.)

Tbf though I thought you were a lawyer too. Didn't know about the niche firm bit, but I haven't been frantically googling/stalking you. I could have only got that from your previous posts.

My partner is an financial IT contractor in London and my dad was a surgeon

I must admit, salary wasnt even something people in my day thought of (IME) when chossing a career. It was all about academic qualifications and choosing a professional career back then. I am heading to 47 and have a degree and three postgrad qualifications and have been working in my field (very hard I must add) for near on 20 years and yet have hit the under £50K limit.
Humanities (including finance and law) were not my thing so I didnt consider those type of careers. There was no career advice back in the 80's and no guide to how careers would be paid in 20 years time.

Xenia, to be fair I don't think most people are that bothered. I think you grossly overestimate the level of people's interest in your identity.

Not every woman (or man) wants to work in a well paid career. I have been listening to people tell me since school and then through university that I was how 'letting myself down' by not choosing different career options and that those I did choose were a 'waste'. I have a good first degree from a respected uni, a postgrad and I am happy as a class teacher. I am good at what I do and even now, I get asked why, when I return to work, I am not looking at stepping into management.

Lower salaries do not equate to dead end jobs.

In the interedt of fairness, I'm an occupational therapist, and earn 38k pro rata. You're right in that not enough women think of the earning potential. It doesn't rock my world though. I've been rich/poor, happy/unhappy and the 2 aren't related for me. I sleep each night knowing I've done what makes me happy. Sometimes home with kids, sone times out in the community doing something I really believe in. On my death bed I don't think I'll have regrets.

You can buy islands relatively cheaply if you know where to look.

You can earn those levels freelancing/contracting but the high take home has to cover your pension, car, training and little job security.

indyandlara i agree with Lower salaries do not equate to dead end jobs

in my social group, salarse vary from 15k to 200k but we all lead the lives that are right for us so everyone is sucessful.

I do the same job as binfullofmaggets and also earn over 100k
And l love babies for lunch!!

Also I would not make this much if I did not earn millions for the company and have the stress of being in charge of millions of pounds
On the plus side I love what I do!

oh and we share out the babies, kittens & puppies so everyone gets to eat and kick them as much as they like.

(obviously the people on higher saleries enjoy kicking and eating babies more than the saints who work for a lower renumeration)

lap, indeed; it's not how people think but great fun and I'm so glad I have it.

I think 20 years people did know what jobs earned. I could look it up in public libraries as a teenager in books. I remember asking my father what islands costs and drew a graph of how long it would take me to buy one based on different salaries when I was 10 (I assumed you kept 100% of your salary and there as no tax) teacher, librarian etc etc.

I also agree with the comments above that money doesn't determine whether you are happy at all. Health, mental and physical plays a big part and all the other things which raise you happiness levels like exercise, free air, good food.

My DH is an OIM on an oil rig. He's 36 & earns 150k.
Previously, he was a captain in the merchant navy.

He works extremely hard & I'm very, very proud of him. :)

I dont necessarily agree people know 20 years ago. Some of the professions mentioned are newish, reinvented or have developed considerably over the last 20 years.

why does every one of these money/salary/career/feminism/law threads end up being a discussion about Xenia's island?????

I'm not sure we could easily live on as little as £100k

I've seen some crass posts from you Xenia, but that about tops it.

Oooh I just love a Xenia flaunting her island and income thread

Xenia, you are so resilient I think you should rename yourself teflon you don't seem the slightest bit bothered by flaunting your income and not bothered by people not giving a shit and disliking it. The fact that you still continue I find really odd but maybe that is my problem? I would "love" to have that confidence in life as I believe it would have taken me farther than I have already come. I work for a global corporate company which is full of self believing, self congratulating egos who are very like you with their patting on the back and image enhancing attitude and although I have been told to be more "american" and more self promoting, I just can't.

I have worked my arse off for 25 years and gone way and beyond everyone I know however I think I am doing mighty fine as I am, earn well over £100K. No CSE's, no O levels, left school at 15, work from home, have plenty of time for my daughter, can walk the dog everyday. Not bad but has taken blood, sweat and tears to get here! However this is the first and last time I mention this on mumsnet, it feels so crass talking about it I am cringing.....

My dh is a self employed financial advisor and earns about 125k annually. He works bloody long hours though.

seeing as DP is not a MNer & nor would i want him to be, i might as well just say this in his behalf:

i work v hard and he's incredibly proud of me.

I did - partner in big 4 accounting firm - worked stupidly long hours, at beck and call of clients all the time, got fed up, chucked it all in pretty much overnight - have been SAHM for 6 yrs now. I was lucky to be able to do this I admit - but money isn't everything. Was great before kids, didn't suit me afterwards.