Best Paid Jobs

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Train Driver! They are quite well paid :-) or railway worker, but that's well paid for a reason!

nimbo

LadyMissA wrote: »

escort? :eek:

LOL

on that note king of the world....

I hear Paris Hilton is looking for a sidekick?????

InsideInsurance

slig wrote: »

These are the 32 top earning jobs in the UK apparently http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/nov/25/highest-paid-jobs-uk-2011

Have to say many of those look very low and I guess it also depends on how they are dealing with contractors - are they considered their role or are they considered the head of a company?

People pay you based on knowledge/ experience, risk and results.

The closest to a brilliant salary you are going to get walking off the street is going to be a sales based one given the companies risk is relatively small (low salary) and the good money comes only with results (commission).

Almost everything else is going to require you to build up a base of knowledge and/ or you being willing to take risk. A Business Analyst with two years experience can probably get circa £300-350 a day as a contractor at the moment and will max out at around £500-550 a day unless you have managed to pick the next massive thing before anyone else. Obviously with that you also have the risk of being a contractor and so no job security, no sick or holiday pay etc etc.

The challenge is getting the opportunity to build up that first bit of experience with anything like that.

Wellery82

alotadosh wrote: »

@Jimavfc82, Thanks for sharing your experience - why do you think that was? High pressure? Unrealistic targets? Poor working environment?
I knew there was a very high turnover in recruitment roles (funny how in a climate where everyone says there's no jobs available theres always A TON of recruitment roles advertised...) but I've not really known why

I agree somewhat ironic! The thing in recruitment is that if you make money for a company then they want to employ you. If you are successful you can literally pick up the phone to a competitor and have an interview in minutes on the basis of your track record, i guess a lot of sales is similar.

In respect of why people leave/are dismissed it is a high presurised environment. Making sales isn't easy and you will have plenty of dejection when everything seems on track and something falls down. A lot of people can't cope with being told off, or the 360 degree feedback that comes with the role, or feeling they are failing. It can also be long hours. Most of this however is part and parcel for new employees, and if you can learn to cope with the negativity that surrounds this, and learn from your mistakes to improve it is a lucrative industry. It is also a fun industry if you are young, which often involves loads of socialising outside of work, and less of the stuffiness of many office jobs.

Ironically i left when i was doing well, and have never made the same money since. The reason i left was because i didn't like what was around me. Every month someone was sacked or quit, and negativity was everywhere. If i was older at the time however i may have realised this wasn't the industry, but a snapshot, and some companies would have been good fun, good money and good morals

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agrinnall wrote: »

If you're only earning £43667 as an IT consultant you're not doing it right! Although to be fair to the Grauniad, consultant isn't mentioned as one of the occupations at no. 22. I'd expect a consultant to be in the top 10, my rate at its highest (for Y2K) would have put me around 2nd or 3rd in this list, although that sort of money is a distant memory now .

Don't worry, i'm not. Although i'm not a contractor.. i work for a consultancy (& software) firm so sadly i'm not the one pocketing £700-800 a day.

dawyldthing

generally the highest paid are a combination of long hours, lots of training, stressful or are dangerous

Cridds

I did a degree in accounting and statistics but wasn't really ready work-wise for the big world when I graduated. Here is my study of the last 4 years

I started in credit control earning £13.5k per year when I was 22 (2006).

I then progressed to the finance team and started CIMA earning £18k per year at about 23 years of age (2007).

A big opportunity arrived via a recruiter for a Management Accountants role for £27k which I took in 2008. For a 25 year old part qualified candidate this seemed too good to be true but I thoroughly enjoyed my time there - before I was made redundant after 8 months.

I then went into Financial Accounting (in 2009) and worked for one of the largest telecommunications companies in the UK (albeit taking a pay cut at £23k). I enjoyed two fantastic years there and got a MASSIVE amount of experience onto my CV - stuff that I wouldn't have been able to achieve at smaller companies.

Coming towards the end of my studies in Oct 2011 aged 27, I obtained a new role back into Management Accounting (which I love) which reflected the level that I am currently at - £30k per year. Yet again, I have been served news that I will be made redundant by the end of June 2012!!!

I have studied CIMA for just over 3 years and have gone from earning £13.5k per year to £30k per year, 28 years old and am on the cusp of fully qualifying. I'm being called up by recruiters with lots of offers on a regular basis that would suit post-qualified candidates in excess of £35k+. By July I should hopefully be qualified, earning £35k+, getting married in September and fingers crossed starting a family in 2013.

You put in the effort, you reap the rewards. I am not academically proficient and am terrible at exams (note quite a few resits at CIMA!), but I have continued regardless!

Please note that you do not have to complete AAT before CIMA. ANYONE from any background can dive straight into CIMA from my knowledge - doing AAT beforehand will get you some exemptions (as did my degree) but you could quite feasibly become fully qualified in 3/4 years.

Cridds

dawyldthing wrote: »

generally the highest paid are a combination of long hours, lots of training, stressful or are dangerous

My roles have been quite stressful - 2 redundancies in 3 years. But I guess that's more of the state of the economic climate than what I do for a living.

If you're prepared to put in long hours (not necessary 52 weeks a year!) when required and enjoy the thought of adding to your CV/skill set by increasing your training then you should be prepared to accept the benefits of a well paid occupation in the near future.

Any

Cridds wrote: »

You put in the effort, you reap the rewards.

Please note that you do not have to complete AAT before CIMA. ANYONE from any background can dive straight into CIMA from my knowledge - doing AAT beforehand will get you some exemptions (as did my degree) but you could quite feasibly become fully qualified in 3/4 years.

Agree, no you do not need to complete AAT. Or go anywhere after (unless you really want to become tax specialist).
I am ACCA and I didn't do AAT or degree before. AAT only exempts you from 3 exams, which to be honest you can take all at once in 6-12 mths window (if you have basic understanding of double entry accounting in the first place and put some work towards it).

OP - I am affraid that the best paid jobs do actually require some training.
Sales roles are possibly exceptions, however for the unexperienced the jobs out there are often not very nice or moraly right.

What can you actually do? Or what did you do before? Any qulifications? Then people might have better idea of what could be possible... perhaps there are roles where you are already half way there without realising!

alotadosh

Fair points about the AAT/CIMA, I started as an Accounts Assistant with no prior experience and was advised to do AAT before the more advanced qualifications
It's still a lot of training for a career path I don't want to pursue so not for me I dont think

Any wrote: »

What can you actually do? Or what did you do before? Any qulifications? Then people might have better idea of what could be possible... perhaps there are roles where you are already half way there without realising!

No post-secondary school qualifications to speak of (unless you count the 1st year of AAT) but my work experience can be summed up as:
A couple of years retail after school including a supervisors role,
A few years in a customer service heavy role in hospitality,
And the last few years spent in Accounting - Accounts Assistant, Purchase Ledger, General Admin stuff

The reason i have a fairly short term view at the moment is that a move abroad may be on the cards in the next 5 years or so and I'd like to get us as sorted as possible before then (save hard, get a house and hopefully have something to rent out/appreciate in value (hopefully!) while we're away)
I'm not expecting to walk into a job that pays £100k or anything but if I could hit the £30-£40k bracket that would be great and a massive help towards our plans

Thanks for all the input so far everyone :T