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!

I'd also be happy to do some mentoring - knowing people who had very successful careers definitely helped me. I wish some of them had been women!

I would be happy to mentor too, although would prefer to see a dedicated part of the website where women can ask each other careers advice (whether for themselves or their dds) rather than one to one mentoring. I say this purely because when I mentor like to do it properly and with young dcs have given up doing it temporarily because there wasn't enough of me to "spare". Others might be in same position so "group" mentoring rather than one to one mentoring might be better way to go. Also it deals with the question of anonymity. Eg if you were getting advice you would prob want to know that your mentor wasn't a troll so they are advising you based on reality rather than fiction. While I would be happy for mnhq to know who I am, I wouldn't want a random person to know.

@TheBossofMe

Justine, is there anything we can do to help make this happen?

I'm sure there is lots - will come back to you when we've thought it through our end if that's ok?

I'm a Chartered Surveyor (Partner).

TheBossofMe - I found your post really interesting. I had no idea what a Surveyor was when I was teenager. I am from a pretty rough housing estate and went to one of the worst schools in the UK. I remember telling a career's advisor who visited our school that I wanted to be a solicitor and she suggested that perhaps I consider being a legal secretary instead I sort of "fell" into surveying later in life.

Im a financial consultant with qualifications in accountancy, tax and physics. My career advisor at my comp tried to put me off a law career because his son was studying law and all the girls were 'going off and having children' so all that effort and education was 'wasted'. His attitude has fired me along my chosen trajectory. We could aim for a MN Career Rules, non? So pleased MN Towers are up for this.

Tillyscoutsmum - I am a Chartered Surveyor too - I found it very surprising that there weren't more of us on this thread actually as I have worked with many over the years who would be well into 6 figure salaries.

I also fell into it - I was going to be a lawyer too, but I studied Russian at university and during the course of that decided not to do law, and my uncle was a surveyor so I spent a week shadowing him and ended up doing that. currently on a break until all 4 children are in school, but looking forward to going back!

PanicMode - I was expecting to see a few more on this thread as well. Re: your route into surveying - I did my Dissertation on how/why people came into the profession and it was something ridiculous like 70% of people who had fathers or other relatives who were surveyors. I also sent a questionnaire to about 300 Year 11 students and less than 20% of them knew what a Surveyor did.

sorry to hijack thread... but on a side note as some posters have mentioned pointers for their dc would be great:
This site:
icould

Is superb for any teen+ considering life choices - wish it had been around when my careers advisor suggested I work on a farm colecting eggs.

OK that's it back to the topic...
:-)

Sorry to p.s. - just read back a few pages and would like to stress how lots of the comments about opening up horizons and fighting poverty of aspiration is key to the message of [http://icould.com/] and anyone who feels as passionately as many of you have been saying could do worse than contribute to it! (It is not a company)
That isn't to take away the idea of a mentoring feature in mn.
:-D

Tillyscoutmum - that's really interesting. I trained at JLW (as it still was then) and I was very much in the minority not being a son or daughter of a land agent/surveyor/investment surveyor.

The thing that saddens me is that I still have to say "I'm not an estate agent" when people ask what I do! It's a shame RICS aren't better at careers stuff because it's such a fantastic and varied career.

become an online entrepreneur. the interent provides so many opportunities to set up and grow an online business that it's a bit of an obvious choice.

once you have the outley of a website, logo and some stationery under your belt, you can start advertising your site (whether it is a services, retail, a publication that you build and then sell advertisitng to affiliates) via PPC, which is a bit of a win-win so long as you get it right.

What have you done in the past that will translate into an online business? Can you set up a consultancy or something?

I've been self employed for five years, which has given me the flexibility to look after my two pre-schoolers. Now the youngest is going to start school this year I've built myself a really lucrative platform for my business and it's a good money making model. I'm not on 100k yet, but I only work part time and as a sole trader was on about 50k pro rata. Now I have the opportunity to expand I am well on track to exceed 100k in the next two years.

Fingers crossed maybe even a lot more... It depends how good i am at selling once the business is launched next month.

I think mentoring is a really good idea too.

Great thread.

I just took the test on the icould site and it describes me perfectly. I'm going to show my children that, great site. Thank you.

OOOoooo good!
I'm a bit evangalistic about it as it hasn't been going all that long, but it is such good quality and fulfills such a huge need - I truly wish I had had something like it. I am currently changing career in mid-30s and only now are the scales falling from my eyes as to what is out there! All credit to those mners who can empower others! maybe one day I'll be one when I have achieved some (somewhat delayed) success. ;-)
They say:
"It has been sponsored in its initial development phase by an education philanthropist who believes it is important for people to be enabled to be the best that they can be. The icould storytellers give their time to tell their career story free of charge."
[http://icould.com/]

Would love to know who the philanthropist is!

Panicmode - it was a very similar story at DTZ. I get annoyed with the estate agent thing as well

Love the icould site Snowbeetle

I'd be happy to help in mentoring- i work in the city/accounting and most of my colleagues came from backgrounds where they knew these kind of jobs existed and had role models to follow - i didn't (just a very determined DM and luck) - I don't think children/daughters should have to rely on luck. We have a number of initiatives here to encourage girls/people from deprived backgrounds to go into the city and I just want people to understand the options open to them and not to limit their horizons

Snowbeetle I have forwarded the icould link to my dd - thanks.

IT sales....lots of my friends are in IT sales and rake it in! BUT again, hard work to the point where one of friends was constantly having panic attacks due to the pressures! However, she has got a fantastic car, shoe collection, dress collection, house etc etc!!! They seem to be under lots of obligation to go to social events too which are frequent and apparently where all the networking takes place! Great when you are single but not so great when you have little ones!

Anything happening on the mentoring idea, Justine?

Commercial and operations manager for an oil company (and I'm only 28!)

Hi ThebossofMe,

We've taken your suggestion very seriously and are beavering away at it.

It's an ambitious project and we're tackling it head on, so as you can imagine it's going to take some weeks, if not months to get it right.

In the meantime we hope you can bear with us!

That sounds marvellous, thank you very much indeed! I promise not to nag again

I'm loving this tread. I wonder if it's too late for me, I'm 33 and in a field that doesn't pay well. I Only have professional qualifications, not a degree. I did start a BSc (hons) architecture, but had to stop after having had a baby.

I've been thinking of going back in September but perhaps change to surveying, I would love to get some advice/ mentoring 😊 in particular from the 2 posters who work in surveying. Which field of surveying pays better, quantity, bulding, general?

I'm open to suggestions of other qualifications/ training that I can do in different fields with high earning potential. I understand that It takes many years to get top earnings, but I'm just tiered of working hard in an industry that doesn't bring much money in no matter how much I progress.

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