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!

Sounds like a very good idea to me, TheBossOfMe - count me in (albeit probably with a namechange )

bossofme sorry not read all this thread but just saw your last post- very interesting idea.

It is something I'd like to see in more schools. Years ago having been approached by my boss I was asked to do similar but in respect of a bunch of girls, at a very good girls school, who if truth be told really didn't need it. I did help and it was interesting and a lot of the advice I gave was helpful but I really feel this is something that ought to be done in all our schools

Terrific idea.

We know from the stats that DC from disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly girls are underepresented in applications for RG universities and thereafter in all positions of influence and money.

There's got to be serious talent ther that only needs to be unlocked.

What a good idea. I did Physics and there less than 5% of my year were female. There was no impetus for us to achieve in a traditionally male science. That can't be right.

Let's hope MNHQ like the idea as well, have PMd them. Just in case, I'm starting a spreadsheet of volunteers

It's a great idea. I worked in IT for 10 years and while not a 100K plus earner (now I'm at home anyway) I was on my way there.
Now I'm looking for a job after a break of 6 years and people that I talk to simply cannot point me beyond the typical childcare/TA/cleaning/telesales etc kind of things.
Good thing I already know there are other things out there.

I think the key is maths. Most high paid jobs need maths and girls in this country seem to think they can't do maths. I'm sure they are no different to asian girls who can all do maths (iykwim - I know it's a generalisation and there are loads of exceptions but thats what the popular culture looks like to me).

I worked in India and then moved here - there there were a good 40-60% women on my floor always in IT development - but here in london on my floor there was 1 lady in testing, one high up (God knows how she reached there!!) and the rest where all steno/secretary/typist types. Nothing wrong with those jobs but where are the rest??

I was very shocked. The west is always painted as an egalitarian society and I couldn't believe the disparity when I came here. It's dressed up all different but it's well alive and kicking....

It's a good idea. I've given careers talks to girls in schools etc. It's one reason I bang on about earning a lot of money, having a lot of chidlren and having an island,wrote 30 books etc - nothing to do with showing off; b ut all about trying to show girls and other women that power, money, ambition and success are lovely things to have in your life and make the life of women so much easier and better and can easily be combined with children particularly if you earn a lot. It's not a message the media often puts out.

Xenia - who are you?! You must be famous.

BossofMe- I think it's a great idea.

Rebecca MNHQ has been in touch to say she thinks it's a fabulous idea and they're going to discuss it over the next few days before coming back to us. Thanks MNHQ, I think this could be something really worthwhile for the MN community to do, hope we can figure out a way to make it work.

Will wait and see what the response is - if anyone else thinks its a good idea, please post your support!

great idea, will be watching this with interest, and FWIW I think boys should be included too.

I think even though boys fail more at school and in their 20s they more than make up for it after and this is woman's web site and girls' in 4 in 5 marriage earn less than their men, own only 1% of the planet's wealth and only earn 30% of its income. It is girls who need a leg up.

but it's not just a womens website, plenty of men post here too and many boys are equally as disadvantaged as girls when it comes to life opportunities.

This thread is on the whole fascinating, amazing and inspiring.

I have a teen DD who is capable of so much but has no first hand experience of exactly what women can acheive and no real idea of what she wants to do. I am a self employed lone parent, and I had her when I was 16 - and I'm very proud of what I have managed to acheive, and I think she is too, but I would love her to be mentored by someone who has taken acheivement to a level I don't think she's even dreamed of yet.

I've taken her and shown her around some Oxford colleges, which she found fascinating but I can't provide first hand experience of the jaw dropping (to me at least!) acheivement on this thread.

I hope MNHQ do get on board with some mentoring. DD would absolutely love it.

FITG there are indeed some men on MN, but we are predominantly women.

And on this thread what has been identified is both a lack of career advice and role models for women. And what has been offered is mentoring by women.

Count me in. The careers advice at my school was non existent and I'm going to make damn sure my kids consider their future career more carefully than I did, so I would be more than happy to help other kids be more aware of the range of careers out there.

I would be interested in doing this too, I was lucky that my parents weren't especially well off but are obsessed with their kids getting on in life.

Happy to help and happy to get involved in as I have lots of experience I could use in this. But categorically not if MN try and turn it into something commercial or promote it with a commercial bias, which I don't believe would work.

escort

I'd be delighted to help with a mentoring programme, Do any of you do anything similar to that through work, already?

I am laughing at the escort line. We have women on £700k oin this thread and certainly over £100k and lots of lawyers, actuaries, consultants, IT people and the like, may be one business owner or two but a heap of wives whose husbands earn enough (ie they give sex and get paid by their man) and an escort.

I suspect if we do the mentoring we might be avoiding telling the teenage girls that the easiest way as a woman to get money is marry well or give out sex for money or even not sex but the escort version although it certainly a route for some. Indeed even peoople like the netaporter lady could found their business because they married someone with the funds to help them launch a business. You can tell I was reading Hakim's Erotic Capital book when we were away skiing.

Quattro - we have a mentor scheme at work, but to be honest, the schools we are linked up to are all independent, mainly sourced through employees. So not really the same thing, and its not female focussed.

I've also worked with the Social Mobility Foundation, which helps youngsters in the UK from disadvantaged backgrounds via e-mentoring and placements. Its a good option if this doesn't come off, but again its not female focussed.

And now I mentor Burmese refugees on a professional level, helping them to market products, expand educational opportunities etc. Its very rewarding, I have to say.

I probably wouldn't want to include escorting in the list of careers, though!

Xenia, by calling all SAHM whores, you are not exactly a role model for my kids. Thank you very much.

Theboss same here.

I'm often asked to speak in schools but they're nearly always independent. I'm a governor at a local failing school and tried with the HT to set up a mentoring scheme for those pupils who really would benefit...but we were thwarted at every turn. The red tape!!!

And Chandon I suspect Xenia was joking...