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Stryder

I work as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. get paid 1000s and 1000s, and only work 2 hours a week

openscreen

Project Manager 55, 36k, company car (Golf). Lots of Overseas Travel, (Belgium, Holland, Germany, Canada), get expenses paid etc. But when abroad for 4-6 weeks at a time, don't get paid anymore, than my counterpart who works in Uk, & gets family time at weekend. Have other income of 5.5k a year, but have personal debts of 31K :mad:. Wife works £9/hr temp job

baffledsalmon

openscreen wrote: »

Project Manager 55, 36k, company car (Golf). Lots of Overseas Travel, (Belgium, Holland, Germany, Canada), get expenses paid etc. But when abroad for 4-6 weeks at a time, don't get paid anymore, than my counterpart who works in Uk, & gets family time at weekend. Have other income of 5.5k a year, but have personal debts of 31K :mad:. Wife works £9/hr temp job

This seems awfully low for a PM? What sort of PM is it and is it a large company? We pay our PMs anywhere from £50k+ or up to £500/day on contract. Let me know if you're on the lookout for something new, I work for a global company and we're always searching for good talent!

patman99

Quality Inspector for medical equipment co. £18k, no benefits (other than as I am an Agency worker, I can switch to a higher-paid job without having to give notice).

Cons - being an Agency worker. No protection from being let-go with one days notice despite working at current assignment for over a year.

Commission-based Internet Marketeer for local one-man specialist clothing store (no pay yet, but I have access to his Paypal and Ebay accounts!!!!).

essex6

I work in IT, female, age 37--£63k, no overtime, working 37.5 hr/wk. I do IT work and manage an IT team at the same time.
(I didn't want to post under my normal id in this regard.)

pros: 27 days hol + 9% employer paid pension, company car and private family health (I'm single). Also, I managed to get work from home, so no commute costs to London, etc.

cons: my company owns my soul and will occasionally send me on extended business trips. while living on expenses is good for the bank balance, not so good from a personal perspective. Also, I often need to work a odd hours, as my company is not in the UK, so I need to be available for meetings in the timezone of headquarters. (I take the 'normal work hours' back then, so taking care of my errands, shopping, etc.)

-Money isn't everything. While I live in a paid-off 1 bed which I bought for cash, so no mortgage (and will afford to pay cash to upgrade to a 2 bed by Dec, or could even jump to a house outside of the city centre where I live in Essex now), would trade it in to have a proper family and kids by now.

-That being said, I grew up poor, and often hungry. To have my finances in order is a very comforting feeling and it's the best I can do for now. My parents worked what would probably be today 6-8 quid per hour semi-skilled jobs (father was a lorry driver, my mum a seamstress). I've never forgotten where I come from and I still live like this today, and that is probably why I read this forum.

PeteW

essex6 wrote: »

I work in IT, female, age 37--£63k, no overtime, working 37.5 hr/wk. I do IT work and manage an IT team at the same time.

What exactly do you do? 'In IT' covers about a million jobs - what's your job title?

sepinroth

Hi

I'm a full-time self-employed translator, work at home (or to be honest, wherever the internet available).

As I temporarily work for agencies only, the money is not impressive, but I am slowly moving towards individual clients.

I don't have a set salary - it's purely based on how much work I want to do. Average monthly income is about 2000 GBP, so 24k per year.

Hours of work? God knows. Sometimes just 2-4 per day, sometimes 12 and more for urgent projects.

Pros of this work -LOADS OF THEM: doing what I love, no 2 projects the same, lots of work available, work usually when and where I want (love night work!), relatively good pay for a short amount of time, great satisfaction, almost unlimited prospects for business growth

Cons: no weekends, often need to work at sociable hours, ridiculous deadlines, low agency rates for complicated projects

All that may not sound impressive, but just to compare: I worked as a TA from 9:00 to 15:50 for 6 years for 600 GBP net pay per month! It was apparently part-time but I spent the whole day at school and was getting less per month than I often get for a week now. How terrible was that?

essex6

Job title: HR Systems Manager
(other questions, please ask!)

dilemma10

I have to admit I got lucky. My next job is as an exec assistant working direct to a principal on £41k rising to £43k. Pension is 6.8% from me and 14%from them. 29 days leave. Approx 37 hr weeks. I just turned 24.

Before that I was on £28k but worked all day and night in policy.

Very grateful and need to sort my act out as good money but seem to fritter it away!

Rav3n

Marketing Assistant, 14K a year (set to rise to 15K in January)

Come out with just over 1K a month after tax. I'd be earning more if I was working for another company but a family member got me the job so I'll stick this out for a while.