Fun thread - age/salary/industry/happiness

[username987456]

Thought I'd start a fun little thread as I'm always intrigued to see what everyone else's work life is like.

Age:
Industry or job:
Years worked in said job/industry:
Salary:
Happiness level:

I will start!

Age: 30
Industry or job: Construction
Years worked in said job/industry: 9 years
Salary: £43000
Job satisfaction/happiness: Don't really like my job but it pays well. Looking at other job/career options.

Age. 50
Job. Business Mentoring and support
Years in Industry. Around 25
Salary . Around £40k PT
Happiness. Love it 😀

Age: 40
Job: marketing strategy
Years in industry: 2 (directly) plus 12 related work
Salary: £70k for 4 days
Happiness: can't bear it but struggling to find another job in more rewarding area that pays as well

Age: 30
industry: Niche accountancy
Years: 8
salary: £70k (in Liverpool)
I don’t love it but I’m very fortunate to have carved out a role with zero stress or clients. What I do is boring, but I work 9-5, I’m well paid and get 30 days holiday with early finish Fridays.

Age: 50
Industry or job: insurance
Years worked in said job/industry: 1 year
Salary: £22500
Job satisfaction/happiness: went back at entry level after 17 years as sahm. What a shock to the system but love it. Have been promoted within that time and am hoping to work my way up to a better salary and position within the industry.

Age: 52
Industry or job: finance
Years worked in said job/industry: 12 years
Salary: £30k
Happiness level: ok. Not happy not unhappy but I'm lucky as I'm able to wfh

Age: 29
Industry: Private Client Tax Advisory
Years in job: 3, with another 2 prior in compliance
Salary: 54k
Happiness level: Absolutely love my job. Each new project is a new challenge/something to learn. My team is wonderful and the head of our team fights our corner. Couldn't ask for more.

Age: 45
Industry: hospitality
Salary: around £220—£260 a week
Happiness: pretty good. It can be really tough but also fun. I get to clock out at the end of the day and forget about it.

Age: 36
Industry: NHS District Nurse
Years: 18years in NHS, 12years community nursing
Salary: 36000 - long hard slog to get to this 🤣 and extra qualifications
Happiness: Overall very happy and wouldn't want to do anything else but be a nurse - but obviously its frustrating and hard

Age: 50
Industry or job: Financial Services
Years worked in said job/industry: 16 years
Salary: own company - c£190k best year so far.
Happiness level - 9/10 really enjoy my job

"Thought I'd start a fun little thread as I'm always intrigued to see what everyone else's work life is like."

Hope everyone is suitably vague, otherwise it's a great harvesting exercise.

Age - 29
Industry - Database Engineer
Years - 6 months (career switcher)
Salary - £44,000
Happiness - LOVE it, but it is very new

Age: 38
Industry: NHS junior management
Years: 3
Salary: £25K
Happiness: I love it but anyone who thinks NHS managers do nothing has never worked in my department 😂

I hope people are changing some details before merrily giving this information about themselves online…..

Why what can they do with it?… I think it’s a bit paranoid

Age:41
Job: SEN teacher
Years: 7
Happiness: absolutely love it, the children are everything, great colleagues too, hard work though you never switch off

Age:41
Job: Digital Accessibility Specialist (technical role)
Years: 5 years in this type of position. Starting a new job this month after 14 years in old company.
Salary: 105k euro
Happiness: Love love love my job, hopefully I'll love it as much in the new company

40
Own a new restaurant
Absolutely fuck all right now as been open 9 months and you know what they say about profit and a new business. Have taken 150 000 over those 9 months tho so someone's getting paid 😂
Very happy that I'm not stuck in the corporate world that I hated

Just thinking about the paranoid posts. I have more info than this (minus earnings) on our website.

Age: 32
Industry or job: Arts
Years worked in said job/industry: 9 years
Salary: £20k
Happiness level: completely miserable!

39, 95k, Something similar to operational excellence, relatively happy but should be happier - putting too much pressure on myself to progress.

Age - 31
Industry- social services/ family support
Years - 4 years
Salary - 10k for 2.5days a week
Happiness - I love my job, half way through a degree too so next year I will go full time and go for promotion.

Age: 46
Industry: Headhunting
Years: 22
salary: approx £80-100k (self employed so fluctuates)
Happiness: Hated it when I worked for someone else. Since setting up on my own several years ago, have the perfect work/life balance. No commute, set my own hours (rarely do more than 4/5 a day), and as much holiday as I like.

Age: 30
Industry: distribution
Years: 2 with company, 1 month in new location/role
Salary: 10k for 16hours a week(pay rise due next month)
Happiness: it pays the bills. Looking for another job for better working hours.

50's
Depends on overtime
Care
30 yrs in same profession
pays the bills