Office Jobs in London

sd2310

Hi,
My husband and I have been dreaming of living in London for a long time and decided to actually look into it further and maybe give it a go.
I have been looking in to places to live and jobs.
I have 10 years experience working in different office jobs.
I have been looking on job sites and there seems to be a lot of office type jobs but just wondering how easy/difficult it really is to secure a decent paid job in London. Looking at any kind of office job around salary of £25k.
Any advice/guidance would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Hammyman

It isn't easy because there are already 8,000,000 living there many looking for work. And it is a horrendously expensive place to live.

mountainofdebt

sd2310 wrote: »

Hi,
My husband and I have been dreaming of living in London for a long time

Any advice/guidance would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Really -its your dream to live in London?

Sounds like my idea of a nightmare personally.

Advice - yes don't.

sd2310

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Really -its your dream to live in London?

Sounds like my idea of a nightmare personally.

Advice - yes don't.

why not if you don't mind me asking?

hcb42

on £25K I wouldnt. Couldnt afford to live anywhere decent but that is my personal view.

In fact we earn close to six figures and I dont think we could afford london....

sd2310

Sorry I don't think I was clear in what I was asking. I was just looking to see if anyone knew how easy/difficult it was to find an office type job paying around £25k there seemed to be a lot advertised but just not sure how easy it is. This would be in addition to my husband salary.

Kirri

sd2310 wrote: »

Sorry I don't think I was clear in what I was asking. I was just looking to see if anyone knew how easy/difficult it was to find an office type job paying around £25k there seemed to be a lot advertised but just not sure how easy it is. This would be in addition to my husband salary.

There will be a lot of competition for these types of jobs, unfortunately every grad who can't get a job as well as people who actually want to do this work ie trained secretaries (increasingly rare) are competing it seems. It's not impossible and that is a very reasonable figure to expect, you could get a lot more if you wanted though and had the experience. I've found companies expecting a lot more for the £ though these days, some really take the P***!

But I am the opposite, doing this work and living in London and I hate it! Be prepared for the miserable commuting and rude commuters!

scheming_gypsy

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Really -its your dream to live in London?

Sounds like my idea of a nightmare personally.

Advice - yes don't.

i'm with you on that on. Horrible nasty place where nobody speaks English; there's a lot of foreigners as well.
The handful of times i've been there I've been glad to get the hell out of there again

Kirri

hcb42 wrote: »

on £25K I wouldnt. Couldnt afford to live anywhere decent but that is my personal view.

In fact we earn close to six figures and I dont think we could afford london....

It is possible to live in London on this figure, depends how you spend your money, I'd feel rich living on a 6 figure sum even, in fact I find it hard to believe anyone with a salary of that much would say it's impossible!

scheming_gypsy

Kirri wrote: »

It is possible to live in London on this figure, depends how you spend your money,

but would it be worth doing? you might be able to live in London on it but could you do anything else apart from survive?

sd2310

Kirri wrote: »

There will be a lot of competition for these types of jobs, unfortunately every grad who can't get a job as well as people who actually want to do this work ie trained secretaries (increasingly rare) are competing it seems. It's not impossible and that is a very reasonable figure to expect, you could get a lot more if you wanted though and had the experience. I've found companies expecting a lot more for the £ though these days, some really take the P***!

But I am the opposite, doing this work and living in London and I hate it! Be prepared for the miserable commuting and rude commuters!

Thanks, every job I look at I have the experience in everything they ask for I'm currently working as a personal assistant and the PA jobs that are about £25k sound a lot like what I am doing now except I seem todo more.
The only thing i really worry about is the amount of people with actual qualifications as I only have very basic qualifications.

As to those who hate London, everytime I visit there I just feel at home and don't want to ever leave I go there every chance I get I love it but I suppose everyone is different.