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guitarman001

Friend in structural engineering, offshore work: £102k.
Just found out, too - he's well chuffed. And I'm envious!

John_Pierpoint

guitarman001 wrote: »

I've got the right quals but perhaps not in the right line of engineering. More like £35-40 an hour, so £320 tops for an 8-hour day (assuming you only work that long).

I suppose that is about what 6 agricultural workers get for meeting a target performance harvesting vegetables in the rain?

slowcoachme

Staff nurse, 30 hrs a week, 12 hr shifts, been a nurse for 40+ years, have been ward sister/manager but choose to be a staff nurse to be in contact with patients. Ha, that's a laugh, my shift consists of drug rounds, trouble shooting and some patient contact, endless paperwork and documentation. If I choose to work with patients with toileting, mobility, dressings, chatting etc, my documentation suffers so I spend at least an hour at the end of the shift catching up, UNPAID.
7weeks holiday a year, I need a week off every 7-8 weeks, final salary pension, which isn't much to write home about.
Retiring next year, at 60, on a meager pension and won't get sate pension till I'm nearly 66. I've had enough.

slowcoachme

Oh, forgot to add, £23000 a year basic, enhancements for weekends, bank holidays, nights. A good thing 6 months sick leave at full salary which was good when I needed major op.

guitarman001

FS pension - is it something like £6k per year?

Don't know what I'll do about pension, I have hardly any - I know some buy houses to rent out but I'm against that for moral reasons.

I think nurses are totally underpaid for the work they do - I know a few and they're always pretty stressed out. Bet there are a lot of managers doing ok...

EPL

Business Utilities Consultant - Basic Wage £24,000

With commission last year I earned £38,000 before tax and I am on target to do the same again this year.

John_Pierpoint

Does that translate into electric/phone/gas/water/broadband/..... or ball-point salesman ?...:D

badly_dubbed

Hydraulic engineer -£35,000 per year

12hr shifts 4on, 4off

EPL

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Does that translate into electric/phone/gas/water/broadband/..... or ball-point salesman ?...:D

Pretty much, minus the phone and broadband.

It should actually be Business Utilities Broker rather than consultant, but its all the same I suppose

bjarvis2785

SnowyOwl wrote: »

£8.40 an hour agency work, can't get anything better and believe me I have tried. This job is an hour's commute so it's a fair chunk out of my take home just to get there and back. No pension, no benefits to speak of other than whatever is compulsory by law. Oh and I am 47 and now believe I am one of life's losers

Definitely not a 'loser'.

The way i see it, you could take the decision to live a life of benefits - after all there probably are people 'better off' than you are who are on benefits.
However, you have the pride that you have earned your money.

Before my well paid job, i was earning £11.5k a year, working more hours than i do now and really feeling the pinch. Even to the point debt collection agencies were starting to get on my back.
I could've quite easily gone down the benefits route, but i didn't, and eventually got myself a better job.

So, i know what it's like, and how easy it is to get yourself down, but i admire that you're working and wanting to pay your way.

Winner in my eyes!