Income brackets: PERCEPTIONS of low and high?

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Depends if you stay in the new town, or the old town in Benidorm...

More importantly - I have one BIL (the one with the new job) who is very MSE when it comes to finding deals, and another, who has never experienced the concept of needing to 'find a deal' who will put no thoughts into costs. He's the last person that should organise things.

<Stag_rant>They booked tickets for a football match in Millan, and we handed over the money for it.. without being told that the match was subject to change, and we'd loose our money if they changed dates/venues. Obviously this happened, and I refused to shell out for another match ticket.. so they went on to a game, and me and another fella found a bar for a few hours.</stag_rant>

lostinrates

Hope you found a good bar, there are super ones. Foot ball nights (particular with Brits) can actually be a bit weird in Milan.

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I thought Milan was a poor choice of stag locations - and i think he only picked it so he could go to the football. I can't imagine what a laugh you could have in Prague/Amsterdam for £500.

ukcarper

lostinrates wrote: »

Comfortable.

I think.....

Able to meet bills with out compromising things like eating a healthy diet. Able to have a weekly treat and make reasonable pension savings..having an amount in the bank to pay for an emergency period off work (it he figure I often see on MSEis six months outgoings/salary ). Comfortable, the ability to be warm enough, clean enough, presentable in line with expectations of employers for career progression. Able to communicate in such away as to easily apply for jobs, secure them, do them and balance them with home life. Ability, to persue a leisure activity or two.


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I think it's quite difficult to define but I can't really argue with your definition although I'm not to sure what you mean by " Able to communicate in such away as to easily apply for jobs, secure them, do them ." if you mean it can be very uncomfortable if you feel out of depth in your job I agree.

lostinrates

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ukcarper wrote: »

I think it's quite difficult to define but I can't really argue with your definition although I'm not to sure what you mean by " Able to communicate in such away as to easily apply for jobs, secure them, do them ." if you mean it can be very uncomfortable if you feel out of depth in your job I agree.

I mean....if you are a young job hunter you probably today need a mobile, maybe even with access to email. This is a new 'perception' for me because i didn't need it but that doesn't mean things haven't changed. I think its likely its no longer satisfactory not to have it (incidentally there are a few things you cannot apply for online without a mobile and email address, one that gets no or a slow response is not going to be viewed well by a recruiter!)

I mean if you are self employed to day you need that and a decent home PC probably as the most basic.


I mean if you are some one working across time zones etc you need those and probably more, decent phone system more capable of phone confernencing etc so that you can optimise your work/life balance.


Communications were a sort of thing I was thinking about because I am also on the phone to open reach

purch

somethingcorporate wrote: »

What do you do for a living?

Nothing much.

Worked for many years on the trading floor of a major American Bank and earned lots of money. I was never stressed, but then again I was good at it and I was sensible enough to realise that what I did was all rather silly and that I was lucky to be able to do it.

I guess if you take yourself and what you do too seriously you end up thinking of yourself as somehow important, and the thought that you might lose it all one day must cause this stress people complain about.

IMO someone on minimum wage, or even earning £25K a year for a 40 hour week of real hard graft has far more reason to be stressed, than some self important city worker, earning a six figure salary who hasn't done 5 minutes of hard graft in his/her life.

lostinrates

purch wrote: »

Nothing much.

Worked for many years on the trading floor of a major American Bank and earned lots of money. I was never stressed, but then again I was good at it and I was sensible enough to realise that what I did was all rather silly and that I was lucky to be able to do it.

I guess if you take yourself and what you do too seriously you end up thinking of yourself as somehow important, and the thought that you might lose it all one day must cause this stress people complain about.

IMO someone on minimum wage, or even earning £25K a year for a 40 hour week of real hard graft has far more reason to be stressed, than some self important city worker, earning a six figure salary who hasn't done 5 minutes of hard graft in his/her life.

I think anyone is entitled to feel stress tbh. Stresses are different.


Interestingly there are suicide stats for some different jobs aren't there?

I'll see if I can google them.....that might be interesting ...

I wonder if there is an income correlation at which job stress over comes /life stss.....( both could be to do with money, I don't think its extricable?)


Not british

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-2011-10?op=1

ukcarper

lostinrates wrote: »

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I mean....if you are a young job hunter you probably today need a mobile, maybe even with access to email. This is a new 'perception' for me because i didn't need it but that doesn't mean things haven't changed. I think its likely its no longer satisfactory not to have it (incidentally there are a few things you cannot apply for online without a mobile and email address, one that gets no or a slow response is not going to be viewed well by a recruiter!)

I mean if you are self employed to day you need that and a decent home PC probably as the most basic.


I mean if you are some one working across time zones etc you need those and probably more, decent phone system more capable of phone confernencing etc so that you can optimise your work/life balance.


Communications were a sort of thing I was thinking about because I am also on the phone to open reach

I see and agree I think it is rapidly approaching the time when it will be difficult to get by without a PC and internet access.

The_White_Horse

my perception:

what I earn - low

what all my friends earn: high

reality, probably both high

jgh

Median UK household income is 25k, so by definition, under 25k is a low income, over 25k is a high income. If you want to split it into thirds, under 19k is low (0%-33%), 19k to 32k is middle income (33%-66%), over 32k is high income (66%-100%).