Are home owners happy that prices rise and price out young

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Conrad wrote: »

Gotta mention that 2 nurses (a couple) that lived above my office (in nice self contained flats) were each making well over £50k from Nursing agency work.

I know some nurses also work for other organisations (e.g. at sporting/music events) and can earn a good £10k a year extra in their part time.

Bank/Agency work is money for old rope..and the hourly rates are pretty high

I wish my missus had the time to earn the extra dosh from her profession!

ABetterLife

Conrad wrote: »

Gotta mention that 2 nurses (a couple) that lived above my office (in nice self contained flats) were each making well over £50k from Nursing agency work.

Although I'm studying Nursing, I don't actually want to work as a Nurse. My lifelong dream is Midwifery. Although, Midwives earn the same/similar. However, will take me a little extra time to get there.

ABetterLife

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I know some nurses also work for other organisations (e.g. at sporting/music events) and can earn a good £10k a year extra in their part time.

Bank/Agency work is money for old rope..and the hourly rates are pretty high

I wish my missus had the time to earn the extra dosh from her profession!

How do they have time? All the nurses that I worked with on placement were rushed off their feet. On your days off you're pretty beat.

I do agree that it can be lucrative though. It's more guaranteed to get you a job than an English degree and the starting wage is decent.

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ABetterLife wrote: »

How do they have time? All the nurses that I worked with on placement were rushed off their feet. On your days off you're pretty beat.

I do agree that it can be lucrative though. It's more guaranteed to get you a job than an English degree and the starting wage is decent.

Well, an A&E nurse will typically work 3 x 12.5 hour shifts a week - leaving several other days to do work. Even leaving a day to recover, you could still do a couple of days work elsewhere

MGCP

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

My wife, her sister and all the women in her family agree with this statement, apart from my bra burning professional mother, who never listens to anything anyone else says if there's a chance she might have to U turn on her 1960's equality views.

The actual point where it changed was the point where the mortgage companies would only lend 3 x 1 salary or 2.5 times 2 salaries, and decided they could lend 5x2 salaries (or whatever they did)

If you can't get the loan, and nobody can get the loan, then either wages have to rise or the seller has to sell for less.

Those pesky women eh, wanting to be able to use their minds for something other than staying at home rearing children. Ruined everything I tell you!

Graham_Devon

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Well, an A&E nurse will typically work 3 x 12.5 hour shifts a week - leaving several other days to do work. Even leaving a day to recover, you could still do a couple of days work elsewhere

We need to remember that all the solutions put forward to the person in question rely on her having free childcare. Who's going to take her daughter to school, pick her up, feed her etc while she is working a 13 hour shift?

Not saying the suggestions are not decent enough. Just stating that if you throw a child into the mix, they are not at all practical. OK for someone with no ties though.

Once you throw childcare and school times into the mix, things become very very different, very quickly.

CLAPTON

Graham_Devon wrote: »

We need to remember that all the solutions put forward to the person in question rely on her having free childcare. Who's going to take her daughter to school, pick her up, feed her etc while she is working a 13 hour shift?

Not saying the suggestions are not decent enough. Just stating that if you throw a child into the mix, they are not at all practical. OK for someone with no ties though.

Once you throw childcare and school times into the mix, things become very very different, very quickly.

yes, it probably isn't reasonable to expect a early 20s single mother to buy a nice place in London even once qualified as a nurse.

ABetterLife

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Well, an A&E nurse will typically work 3 x 12.5 hour shifts a week - leaving several other days to do work. Even leaving a day to recover, you could still do a couple of days work elsewhere

Most nurses have a family. Even with a partner, there'd be no time to work extra shifts.

That being said, nurses aren't the poorest of people. There's opportunities to work your way up and different avenues you can go down.

ABetterLife

CLAPTON wrote: »

yes, it probably isn't reasonable to expect a early 20s single mother to buy a nice place in London even once qualified as a nurse.

I'll make it happen :-) even though I may be in my 30s before it's possible at all. At least I'm starting to save and learn better money habits from now. Gives me a bit of a headstart. My point was just that I feel the opportunities are limited and out of reach for many people, and in the situation I am now, I feel even more depressed and hopeless. I just wish so badly I could get out of the place I'm in, and it scares me that that might be a long way away.

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Hence my missus doesn't do extra hours, but plenty of the junior nurses are single and family-free.. so they do.

Bank shifts at weekends are popular since you don't need to sort childcare out if you've got a partner