list your job and wage

sf123

Accounts assistant. £12.5K for 25 hours a week. 26 days holiday, reasonably flexible working + decent pension. Pay frozen for the last three years though .

It's suited me fine over the last few years (I was FT but went PT when I had children), but I'm hoping to start studying ACCA later this year and get back on the career ladder!

Wages in our area are pitifully low... you're lucky to see a job ad over £15K.

joegw

£16,500 (currently on pay cuts of 5%)
Printer, South West, 26
Leaving in two months to start full time education

Kt8

criminal justice substance misuse worker- £24,700,in my early twenties but getting near the middle

bitgiggy

22, £27k pa working as a Junior Finance Manager in London. 28 holidays per year and work flexi time.

Looks great when written down but really don't enjoy it at all anymore...thinking about giving it up and doing something I've always wanted to do....become a croupier!

Money and benefits or something I could possibly really enjoy....hmmm.

chris1973

Buyer for a small, struggling Electronics manufacturing Company (small family owned firm employing 21 people).

Opens at the weekend to the public as a genuine Victorian workhouse

£13k a year for 37 hours per week. Handy and welcome 1pm Friday finish.

no pension, no sick pay, no investor in people, flexi-time, job-share, health care or any new fangled new age stuff

21 days holiday + 3 days long service. 3 days of this have to be reserved at Xmas

Don't ring in sick unless you are about to die or can produce your severed limb to prove a genuine absence.

Boss was once asked about extending our lunch break from 30 mins to 45mins / 1 hour and his reply was "If you want that stuff get a job in London"

Employed 17 years with the same company. 37 years of age.

Despite the lack of incentives, no bonus, only a basic holiday entitlement and no pay review this year, I Still consider myself very fortunate to have a job in a recession and area of high unemployment and minimum wage jobs, but chuckle when I hear about people "struggling" in similar areas and in similar circumstances as me on their (or their O.H) 'meagre £17k per year' - more often than not its always on here!.

40 hrs a week for £14k?

Errrr whats so surprising about that which is worth highlighting and quoting?

Maybe you should leave the casting couch once in a while and allow yourself to step into the real world. Who knows, in a few years with your salary and a few pay rises time, we may see you doing just that as 'The Secret Millionaire'

sf123

chris1973 wrote: »

Buyer for a small, struggling Electronics manufacturing Company (small family owned firm employing 21 people).

Opens at the weekend to the public as a genuine Victorian workhouse

£13k a year for 37 hours per week. Handy and welcome 1pm Friday finish.

no pension, no sick pay, no investor in people, flexi-time, job-share, health care or any new fangled new age stuff

21 days holiday + 3 days long service. 3 days of this have to be reserved at Xmas

Don't ring in sick unless you are about to die or can produce your severed limb to prove a genuine absence.

That sounds very much like my job used to be, except we got 20 days holiday, no long service & had to use 3-4 days for Xmas shutdown and worked a full day on a Friday! Give them their due though, they were very accomodating when I went PT.

Then we were taken over by a v large multinational. The job is nowhere near as stimulating as it was before and we have become just numbers... HOWEVER, our terms of employment have improved no end. Good pension & life cover, 25 days hols + 2 long service, full sick pay for 6 months, flexible working (eventually), corporate perks, prob more that has slipped my mind.

LondonGirl252

Age 22
Treasury Account for London Property Company
£26,500 pa
Health care
No flexi time (officially it is slightly relaxed when we do long hours/have appointments)
No other benefits other than some good friends made

Shoshannah

Age 25.
Veterinary Surgeon (one year out) - £26,500.
No benefits.
£40,000 student loan to repay with £45 per month added interest. :rotfl:

Other half is aged 33, IT Helpdesk Technician, £19K I think. No student loan to repay. :mad::rotfl:

lalli_pickle

Age 26
Job 1 - accountant £28k
Job 2 - flipping burgers minimum wage
Job 3 - Nightclub minimum wage
Also self employed bookeeper £10 ph
Why do I have so many jobs? DS is in independant school in the hopes that he will make better choices than me having had a better education.

John_Pierpoint

Perhaps it depends on the quality of local schools BUT the "subsidy" achieved by users of state education might well be more than the extra you make with the "after hours" extra jobs.
You could invest the time saved in expanding the horizons of DS or even invest in after school coaching, like the ambitious parents of Japan do.
Kids are funny creatures - what they really need is the ability and ambition to pull themselves up by their own boot straps (like mine had to).
[Have we all met privately educated "Trusterfarians" who don't even know how to tie the shoe laces of life?].