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!

Management consultant, hard work, long hours, really tough, never boring

That's true in France of course but in the UK we have independent taxation, so it should in theory be beneficial for a household to have two earners.

Hi Quattrocento - yes, an equity partner in a NY firm; he got sent over to Europe three years ago to head up all the European/ME side of the business so has lots of global responsibility (and therefore works across time zones round the clock). He lives and breathes his work (he'd have to or would find the hours intolerably gruelling).

Quattrocento - the UK is greedy towards second earners in a different way, by not making domestic employment tax deductible. You do need to replace yourself...

I saw one of my cousins over Christmas, a lawyer, who is struggling to make her life workable now that she has given up her FT nanny/housekeeper (children are in all day school) and trying to manage with just after school nannies. She at long last makes a reasonable profit on working (she was sometimes working at a loss before) but is deeply stressed out and misses her old nanny big time.

I think Xenia on MN gives so many rather specific details of her life, such as her family, the divorce, the island, etc, that when she appears in, say, the Daily Mail with members of the same family talking about funding the same divorce, then MNers twig to it. Though to be honest, it's not a well-known name and I've forgotten it.

I'm very careful with my details and backstory. I don't lie but I keep quiet about some things. I'm also skint so probably far less interesting than Xenia!

Waves to Quattro and Bonsoir

indieskies that is my wish eventually. i'd love to put my knowledge and experience into Charity retailing one day, rather like Mary Portas who is a great example in my field. I hope to do that once I've retired from my current career and feel like I could offer a lot. i also wouldn't expect payment, I'd be happy to work part time for free if my pension will allow.

In the meantime..should I take the charity role, reduce my earnings, and sign up for tax credits to cover afterschool care, reduce my tax bill by half and stop contributing to social care payments?

Or carry on contributing to the economy by participating in the running a successful business that keeps 1000 odd people in 14 countries across Europe in employment, whilst trying to build a nest egg for my son, so that he won't need to rely on the state to fund him in his first stage of adult life?

Either way I'd be fulfilled. i don't lead a dramatically excessive life - i am saving for the future of my family.

TheRealTillyMinto, you also forgot to add the other message which is that people think that you are making it up and can't possibly be earning that kind of money. Personally, I look at women like Helena Morrisey and think well done them.

SM
There were just as many women posting about their own (current or pre children) careers as women posting about their own career.

As for me, I could earn a good bit more than I used to in sales depending on which area I went into and what commission I was earning. Not keen on going back into sales though.

Um. Not anywhere near 100k and won't be while I take time out for my third and hopefully final degree but pre ML was on about 82k when working forty hours a week as a consultant.
Job was a very highly specialised database developer.

Loved it but don't want to work in London full time.

Hello MrsJA! Love the link. It reminds me of trying to explain what I do to the DCs.

Bonsoir
Do you not have a VPN server? You can watch bbc overseas on iplayer

Incidentally, going back to morals. One of our friends is general counsel for a division of a large American company and earning big bucks. He is the nicest, kindest guy with impeccable moral standards.

I don't think you can generalise.

Binful - exactly - I'm saying it is unreasonable to expect people in the middle of earning money to do the same professional job for a peanuts salary just because the beneficiaries are beneficiaries of a charity.

MrsLindor - it's just not worth it for the usage. I never watch TV...

have name changed

I earn well over 100k. I work in advertising, senior management. My 20s were work hard play hard, my early 30s just plain work hard, and now in my late 30s I have much better work life balance. So I also do a lot of pro bono work, consult for NGOs, and have plenty of time for family and friends. There are still times of the year when it's all work work work though. I also worked every school and uni holiday since I was 16 in roles designed to get me where I am now.

DH also is a high earner. We have amazing childcare and home help. But live miles away from family (different countries) so no help from them.

A much more interesting Q would be, how much money do you have left at the end of the month? And what do you spend it on?

Or even do you have an ISA would be more interesting.

Now I must go to bed.

Wasn't having a go indie, it is a general conundrum, and people would of course like to use their skills for good, but practicalities get in the way.

Re using skills for good, for me it was actually very simple. I am very good at my job, there aren't many people who can do what I do as well as I do it and make as much money for their employer. Not boasting, I'm just very aware of what I'm worth to my company. Which, BTW, is something more women should be prepared to recognise. IME men are good a this, and women often go all coy and self-deprecating.

I am also very good at negotiating, it's a life skill all women should learn. So when I negotiated my current role, I also negotiated some time (30 days a year) to spend on non-income projects of my choosing, and some staff with the same time allocated to work with me on these projects ( no shortage of volunteers for this since the projects are all high profile and look amazing on a CV). All on the company time, using their resources and their dime. So this year, again, I'm working with a UN project and an HIV project. In the past, I've worked with other NGOs, and sat on government consultation committees at the highest level. I always go well over my allocated time, but in my own time.

Know your worth, women, and use it to negotiate what you want. We are in the comfortable position where we don't need more money in my oay packet at the end of the month, we have plenty of that, what is important to me is time to do what I want.

OP, to point out that every minute of my working life since I was 16, and every minute of my educational career, all through Uni, postgrad, MBA etc has been focussed on getting me to this position. Eyes on the prize, always.

I earn £100k. I'm a Chartered Accountant now working for a bank. I work hard and sometimes long hours but think I have a genuine aptitude and enjoyment of what I do so it doesn't overstress me.

I think I could have gone further in my career but men have two advantages over me. Firstly many have wives who take care of many of the domestic details freeing up their minds for the job which earns the money. And secondly they enjoy talking football over a post work beer. It's a great networking time where valuable information about office politics can be learnt and alliances are formed which help with internal moves, promotions etc.

But I'm not bitter - I earn a lot for a job which challenges me and which I enjoy.

Malinois my dh is one of those IT contractors you describe. I read him your comment about the snow boarder and he looked confused and said 'but why would you want to go on holiday for three months?' . Uber geek...

See, there is one career that wasnt really the way it was when I was at school. I graduated from University before the internet was born.

My entire family don't ear 100k between them.
But we're a happy bunch.
Success is being good at what you do and enjoying it while earning enough to live.