What jobs pay at least £35k (pro rata) AND offer part time hours?

[Podrick]

I have a job that pays £40k for part time hours. That bit is obviously great. The job/workplace environment is aggressive, macho, stressful and depressing though and I have put up with it and hated it for 10 years now. I feel that I am in a "golden cage" (or at least a silver one) because I don't imagine I could find another job part time on this kind salary...

Kind mumsnetters, brighten my life by telling me what other jobs would potentially pay this kind of salary for part time hours?

Oh Podrick - I used to work in health service management. The people like you in finance departments were as rare as hens' teeth and an absolute godsend to those us us without a finance background.

I know it's no help if you hate where you are but there will be loads of people who will love you for being different.

Is it the NHS culture that you find macho? or just finance? I would have thought that with a finance background you could move to more general management jobs in the same location.

lots of useful advice and ideas - I'm so glad I asked you all!

notsoclever that post has cheered me up and I am v popular with the nhs managers and clinicians without a finance background - i just don't fit the mould with the other finance folk, and in answer to your question it is my finance dept that is macho rather than the whole organisation, so I probably should consider other nhs roles...I am really itching for a change so I was aiming to leave behind both finance and the nhs but perhaps I potentially only really need to change one of these.

what an interesting post. Could anyone tell me how to get into HE administration?

Recruitment but just the same old story as hwere you currently are podrick

HE admin jobs usually advertised in Times Higher Education Supplement (out on Fridays) and Guardian on Tuesdays and on www.jobs.ac.uk

Posts often promoted from within but they almost always have to advertise externally and specialist posts in HE (eg finance, project management etc) are often available but you'd need experience/qualifications if not to start at bottom. Couldn't say you'd get 40k after your pro-rata taken into account in an HE admin post and you'd have to be pretty senior to earn much over 40k annually in any case.

Lecturing much more difficult to get into, though if you want to provide professional expertise in business/finance, might be worth offering one-off consultancy sessions to your nearest business school. To have a hope of a permanent lecturing post in most universities you will normally need a PhD in your chosen subject, or at very least a Masters, though professional training courses often have different requirements. Average salary of university lecturer is touch under 40k IIRC.

Have you thought about project management in somewhere that uses public funding - I used to work ages ago for housing associations and projects that were in community development and a large part of this was budget management. Not sure what the out of London salaries would be but I'd be surprised if with a few years of payrises factored in since I left, those jobs would be much less than £40k in London?

A senior admin post in a Uni would pay that much as everyone has said. I think your issue might be that getting such a post on a part time basis might be a problem. I work in HE and I have found that people that have reduced their hours after they have been working full time (eg after having a child) and that they have negotiated this by passing on some work to more junior colleagues so the Uni isn't out of pocket in any way.

There does tend to be much more flexibility in the public sector though with working a compressed week and working a couple of days from home being quite common.

I think you need to look at whether it is just this particular work environment you hate or finance in general. Like you I work part-time in finance at managerial level, but for a medium company with very flexible and non-macho style. Such jobs are very hard to find though... The main problem is the usual one with part-time work - the work is enough for a full-time job which you try to cram into part-time hours.

Have you thought about being a bursar (or part of the finance team) in a large public school?

A teacher in management can earn a lot more than 35K but does take a few years.

I'm a train driver on London Underground, was on £40k+ full time, after this baby will be taking a job share.

Always wondered what its like to be a driver on the underground, whats the job/hours like citybranch??....interesting!

Very interesting post.

Both my Mother and Mother in Law were Teachers which worked well for them and the family most of the time. They did though have phases with unhelpful bosses as in any industry. Part time teaching unless you are quite senior though - in schools doesn't pay as well.

I currently work f/t similar money, but 0 quality of life. I am certainly not doing it for the money as that still goes on ft childcare (in london) and stupidly expensive lifestyle (long story). I went back to work to please my husband who doesn't need me to work anyway as he earns more than enough. As soon as my DD goes to school I will go freelance. Half the hours - same money (well in theory).

Some of my family work in Universities and earn that much pro rata. I think its another good option.

I'm definately not going to stay full time I don't think the stress is worth it not even if they paid me double what I am on now. QOL is more important. You can't take the money with you.