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!

that was at Peppa pig btw!

Very few people walk into a job that automatically pays them 100k. Most will have worked their way up the ladder, one or two will have been lucky enough to pull the right strings or have a family member who was able to assist.

Ability is also a factor. You may want to be a hot shot city trader, but actually being able to do it is a different matter entirely!

GetOrf - why did you want to work in the City? What appeals to you?

Has this thing kicked off yet ?

Pensions

it is only really people with extraordinary jobs, i.e creative types & people that work for themselves that are raking it in. I tend to disagree

A very small number of creatives and self employed make a lot of money, most do not. Most of the £100k + jobs I know of require very long hours in large corporates, or long training periods in restricted-entry fields like law, accounting, medicine etc.

I did once read that being an Escort was very lucrative, but I guess after Belle de Jour's outing everyone is into it now :o

I wanted to work for LIFFE, I really fancied wearing a bright green jacket and doing hand signals, all whilst people screamed at me.

Plus it was based on watching Wall Street as an impressionable youngster, and when the big bang happened imagined I would wear shoulder padded suits, a lot of make up and drink champagne all the time, and then get married to Gordon Gecko.

There are £100K jobs in most sectors, if you look high enough up organisations.

Just not many of them, and you have to work your way up to them.

Pilot (not me, and not planes).

Senior managers in financial services
Some actuaries
Some consultant doctors and GPs

I think for £100K you need to be in a job / industry which has a reasonable number of roles at that level AND be good at your job AND have a face that "fits" AND be fairly lucky

From what I have seen anyway

Doubt the OP thinks they can retrain and walk into a 100k job. Presume they mean retrain in a career with the potential to earn that much.

My DH is an actuary and I used to be one (now SAHM). Agree with Whatmeworry about long hours or long training periods. For actuaries, the hours aren't necessarily too bad, but the qualification exams are a killer. Do you like maths?

People I know who earn that kind of money:

law firm partners (or lawyers who are nearly partners)
barristers
traders in the City
medical consultants working mostly in the private sector
someone who does something very complex relating to creating market models for commodities at a bank

In most of those, you will be working for 10 years + (after gaining whatever qualifications are required) to be earning six figues.

Not me I'm afraid but I have friends who do. One is some kind of analyst at an investment fund in the city and the other is a pilot. I also have accountant friends in their twenties who are not on that much yet but probably will be at some point.

Recruitment / headhunting is probably the best job to earn loads of money without having to get any specific qualifications but you have to be interested in money and targets and nothing else. Having a life or an interest in something that isn't your targets or your money is frowned upon.

Technology Consultant.

If organisations have problems they can't solve involving complex systems, computing, electronics and maths, I can help them (sometimes).

General requirements are a degree in maths, physics or electronic engineering, and preferably a PhD in an advanced engineering or physical science primary research area, followed by about 10 years of industry experience.

Having multiple languages, security clearances, and being willing to travel anywhere in the world at no notice is also helpful.

What a brilliantly nieve question.

Why don't you also ask how old they are?
How many years of training did they do?
What's their work/life balance like?
How many hours do they work?
How many years of hard slog it took to get to 100K+?

Dh was a company director when reached that income level.

GetOrf- Lol. So, back in the real world what did you end up doing?

I'm not naive to think I can just waltz into a job and earn 100k! 50k would be lovely though!

There are a lot of people (majority of people) who work for a pittance and they work extremely hard. I think people sometimes forget that. High salary = hard graft, low salary = lazy arse - not true at all. Anyway I'm straying off point.

I dont want to work in the City, after two DC's I think Stripper / high class escort is out of the question and someone has already invented Peppa Pig. Oh bugger what else can I do??

A partner of a small well-regarded business. Dh doesn't work long hours but he is good at it.

Jammy, I mean I am very proud of him.

mumof3kids would you say it was completely nuts for a nearly 40 year old woman to start actuarial exams? I mean will an employers take me seriously at that age? What do you think?

It's just curiosity cheese I don't think they are being funny.

In house lawyer at a bank (get me, a lawyer and a banker all rolled into one!)

I set up and own a (relatively) large, well known company. I'm currently on ML, but the beauty of being in charge is that no one can tell me when I have to get up early in the mornings! :o

DH is a GP. Earns just that. But 6 years and med school and then 9 years post grad to get to that.
I have private chiro clinic, earn that pro rata, but again, took 5 years at uni, and 10 years in associateships and building up the business to get to that. Hard slog, stubborn resilience and lots of years commuting and working way up chain to get there though.