thegoodnaysayer
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I think I need to unfollow this thread because it is depressing me so much to realise how little I make?! I'm being fucked
I'll be a potted plant in your office if that pays£130k as a compliance officer for a medical devices company. 9.30am - 5pm Mon-Fri. 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, plus 2 week company shut down over Xmas and new year.
Emailed the invoice Seems a little formal for your own childAre your parents not charging you rent? My eldest starts his new job in a few weeks and I've ready emailed him the invoice.
If it makes life any easier just tell everyone that you do pay rent. End of conversation . You don’t need to explain yourself to anyone.Dad that grew up with nothing that wanted to give his children everything and there is nothing wrong with that.
I will do the same for my children for as long as I need to or can. I often get this exact reaction but I would like you to know there isn’t a single thing wrong with it. I still choose to work and invest my money correctly though I do not need to.
l think it’s actually criminal how poorly TA’s are paid, they are so vital to the learning in the classroom.Teaching Assistant around 12.30 an hour
Not sure if we read the same post but they have said it isn’t fantastic for a chief executive role, which it isn’t. Unsure why that would piss people off. No one suggested it wasn’t a good salary when compared to the uk average.Don’t worry, I’m convinced people just write shit like that to piss people off
Just coming back to this to say I accepted a new job and have doubled my salary plus stock options.Outsourced believe it or not! It’s the only good thing in the package though, shit pension, stat mat/sick etc!
Well loads of reasons; to have something for yourself, some personal income (just generally and in case things go wrong), to carry on with a career you enjoy, to not have childcare as your be all and end all, maybe your partner isn't a high earner. Everyone's different and everyone's situations are different. Hopefully, we all get to play it how we want and not have decisions made for us by circumstances and costs.Forgive me if I sound stupid here as I'm not completely educated on the subject. Obviously as a single mother it would be different, but I just can't understand why, as a woman still with her partner, I would bother working at all with those childcare costs. When I have kids I fully intend to be a SAHM because why would I pay most of my salary to spend all my time at work and not see them might as well have a little side hustle and make the extra few hundred quid out of that. Fine by me I hate working anyway.
My daughter (25 yrs)did an HR degree ( got a First) and briefly worked in recruitment ( but during lockdown so didn’t get to experience office culture in the city- but it would have been crazy!)….Dont get me wrong, my CV looks impressive and i do love learning and being in a uni environment, but i did quite a generic (usless!!!haha) BA in History/Criminology, and then a really specific MA in Social Work so my options were kind of limited for employment.
I am always jealous of people who either didnt go to uni and they have good well paid jobs, or people who studied business. I always imagine people who have gone into marketing and/or recruitment as the 'cool' kids who get to work hard and play hard in funky London offices.
Go into management in public sector your skills are highly transferable as it is like working with kidsI'm on £39k, secondary teacher, 8yrs into teaching.
Anyone here who has left the profession with a positive story? I want to leave but unsure of what roles to look for. I know that I have a lot if transferable skills. Thanks
I don't have kids but some of friends do, and their take-home salary is almost entirely taken up by the childcare cost. But they carry on working for the future benefits. E.g while working they're still paying into their pensions (and getting the employee payment into it as well) and keeping skills current or developing skills for future promotions.Forgive me if I sound stupid here as I'm not completely educated on the subject. Obviously as a single mother it would be different, but I just can't understand why, as a woman still with her partner, I would bother working at all with those childcare costs. When I have kids I fully intend to be a SAHM because why would I pay most of my salary to spend all my time at work and not see them might as well have a little side hustle and make the extra few hundred quid out of that. Fine by me I hate working anyway.
read this as ‘paying for malteasers’. Im such a fat cow hahaha.
But yeah, 6.5 years ago I was on 26k and coming to the end of a 6 month contract. 7 years ago, not working and paying for a Masters that I didn’t know if it would get me to where I wanted. A lot of luck, bit of risk taking, openness to relocate and enough confidence/bullshit to make the other side blink first!!