Discuss your salary

olly300

Thermidor wrote: »

. I thought you had to TRAIN to teach, especially in a university!:D For someone who's supposed to be a financial advisor/banker/university tutor he hasn't advised himself very well.

You don't have to train to teach in a university. I know people in different professions who lecture at universities in the UK. You need to have the relevant industrial experience.

I could even lecture or be a part-time tutor at a uni if I wanted. (Which I don't.)

Being just a part-time lecturer/tutor is different from being a full-time member of staff.

Alan_M_2

olly300 wrote: »

You don't have to train to teach in a university. I know people in different professions who lecture at universities in the UK. You need to have the relevant industrial experience.

I could even lecture or be a part-time tutor at a uni if I wanted. (Which I don't.)

Being just a part-time lecturer/tutor is different from being a full-time member of staff.

Indeed, my dear old Dad lectured at various universities (polytechnics!) and has never had a paper qualification to his name.

He's a retired engraver, enameller/enamel artist. Not something they do A levels in.....

He is a freeman of the City of London though, does that count?

breadlinebetty

Very true. My best friend's Dad used to occasionally go and give a lecture at a university near where he lived. I don't think he even got paif for it but he did it more as a hobby, and he also got a free meal and some booze bought for him afterwards. A good night out. He'd studied anthropolgy and had a great time mixing with the students.

breadlinebetty

bendix wrote: »

Oh. Right. You went on holiday there. Nice.

Yes, I concede then that your holiday beats the fact i worked there for two years by a country mile.

I defer to your greater knowledge

Two years doesn't make you an expert. I lived in Germany for 10 years and certainly didn't feel I qualified as an expert on the country until about 7 years after I lived there - and even then I didn't know it all.

Tis true about salaries though..........you can see the going rates on the web. I ignore much of the stuff I read on forums, people always make out they're richer/more handsome, cleverer/ younger bla bla bla....bit pathetic really. I don't see the point of lying (only people with inferiority complexes do that) and rich people do the very opposite - they always make out they're poor and on crap salaries!!!!:) It's the failures who live a fantasy land on the net. It doesn't bother me, I just laugh or ognore it but some people get annoyed. I don't know why - these lying saddos are just a sad joke

misskool

Thermidor wrote: »

Yup, maybe Generali could tell us what the $100 covered?

I really cannot understand these people on forum sites who takes what someone says as gospel. All they have to do is check out Australian salaries to see that Generali wildly exaggerates. For all we know he may not have been a Uni tutor. I thought you had to TRAIN to teach, especially in a university!:D For someone who's supposed to be a financial advisor/banker/university tutor he hasn't advised himself very well.

Still waiting to see his answer to the OP's question. lol

I tutor at a university and you don't need to be trained to teach university undergraduates.

You do need to be trained to teach primary and secondary but nothing else after that.

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

What was wrong, is there a rule on this board that once a thread reaches 100 posts an argument has to break out?

Yer reckon, do yer? You and 'oose army?

neverdespairgirl

misskool wrote: »

You do need to be trained to teach primary and secondary but nothing else after that.

Only in state schools, I think. I had several teachers who didn't have a PGCE.

PasturesNew

I've done several types of teaching/tutoring over the years. Most recently I've done some for local Colleges.

One bunch paid £7/hour. For that I had to: invent the course, write all the materials from scratch. The College would advertise the course and I'd get the dates. These were for 3 hours at a time and I had to collect a network of laptops from the College (20 miles away), then drive to the site to set them up ready for the class to start. If nobody'd turned up after an hour I could go home, which meant packing it all up and getting all the kit back to the College, then coming home.

I think people only turned up twice. So I ended up being paid £7 for all the dates that nobody turned up. That worked out at about 40p/hour I guess - and I didn't get reimbursed petrol either, so it was an overall loss, which is why I had to stop doing it.

Another one were providing online tutoring. I was taken on, proper contract, had to set up my PC with their systems and log in and find my way round. I had about 50-70 students I think, had to find out where they were all up to on the courses and familiarise myself with the course materials etc and get in touch with them. Then I attended a full day's meeting 60 miles away. For this I worked about 60-70 hours and was paid off the princely sum of £5.50 when the P45 came through. They had taken me on expecting they'd be winning a big new contract, when they actually lost the contract they had... so no more job. The pay rate was calculated on you only being paid when a student completed the course, so in the week I was with them (or so), nobody finished the course as these were 6-9 month courses.

And next week I am giving a lecture at the local Uni (40 miles round trip) and there's no pay/reimbursement whatsoever. It'll take me probably half a day to prepare something from scratch, just for them, that'll never be used again and I'll get no benefit from it. So again, expense to me, £0 pay.

PasturesNew

I can never say how much I earn, because right now I look at my screen and it says: £0.01. So, 9am and today I have earnt 1p. This is a significant increase over when I checked 30 minutes ago and it said £0.00.

The clock starts at 8am I think.

I earn my money online and I have many sources of income, or 'multiple streams of income' as they call it. Most of it residual - that is, I work once and I get paid potentially for weeks/months/years to come, dripping in a few pence here and a few dollars there.

I earn the bulk of it from one source - and therefore spend my days finding other sources, so I am not reliant on that one source. Everything I do is speculative. I do work hoping it'll make it big. I do it 'for fun', rather than competitively (If I purely did it for the money I'd be on more, but chasing the money leads me to dull places).

My main source of regular income is from Google. Whatever is in that account I see as my "take home pay" - and I see all the other incomes as the bits which will pay my overheads (equipment, connection, domain names, hosting) and my taxes.

At times in the past 12 months I've seen it all slipping away from me. One day I woke up and my whole website had just gone, problems with the host - which took me a total of 10 days to get to the bottom of, discuss with the host, find a new host and start again. At times in the past 12 months it's looked like my income this year would be about £10k.

However, I've actually "done some work" in the past two months (rather than researching I was writing and tweaking), which means it currently looks like I'm on £20k. But if I take the rest of the year off this wouldn't drop.

Working online is fickle, you can be earning good money one day - and tomorrow everything could come to a grinding halt.

My website traffic has doubled since last year, but the advertising revenue per item has dropped back, meaning it's not significantly more as an income.

My plan is to double my income by finding more independent sources of income, so if any one stops overnight there's not such a big impact.... I'm getting there slowly.

I work long hours at what I do (15 hours/day, 7 days/week). And I enjoy it. It's like a hobby with pay. I have also won some competitions, which is tax free.

People also pay me to write for them. Not often as I am approached, I don't advertise "Hey - I can write stuff".

I don't "have a business", I make money. I have no clients with expectations, no invoices to issue, no late payers.

Every month without fail Google dump cash into my bank account. Across the month I randomly receive sums of money into Paypal or my account in £s and US$s from other companies.

I'm doing OK.

I can't get a proper job because round here there aren't any - and I'm no good at interviews - and round here pay would be about £14k for a full-time job and the boss would be a slave-driver for that. So I don't bother looking. Sometimes I get calls from agencies and I spend a whole day preparing for interviews etc .... including travel ... and I don't get them. So I stopped bothering. It's an expensive business, going to interviews, and they kind of don't like what I've been doing for the last 3-10 years. They either don't understand it, or think I'd leave quickly, or just don't like the sound of what they don't understand,

I really need more equipment and a desk and a chair ... and a house. But that doesn't look like it's going to happen this year. I've looked at renting places, but it'd mean losing about £750/month (basic rent + basic bills), so not worth wasting the cash.

housesitter

One of the terms in everyones contract where I work is to not discuss salary with other members of staff.
I highly doubt that is at all enforcable.