Fair or taking the mick?

Bill.i.am

So I am currently working for a Debt Collection Agency in a call-centre (I know, Sorry). It is 35 hours a week over six days and I get just over £11,000 per year before tax ect.

It may not be a particularly skilled job but there was a lot of training involved and a lot or regulations and bureaucracy ect. And being sworn at and spoken to like something on the bottom of ones shoe.

I am grateful to have a job don't get me wrong but I do feel as though i am underpaid. There are people whom have been working here for over ten years and they only get a few thousand a year more than I do so there does not even seem to be any scope for progression.

I would like to get another job but there is not much around and too many people applying for each and every job which is going.

Would you say I am right to be annoyed or does this sound about right?

Horseunderwater

Are you single & 25+ years old - if so you may be eligible for some working tax credit. Run details through this benefit checker to see.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/benefits-check

IYKWIM

Bill.i.am wrote: »

So I am currently working for a Debt Collection Agency in a call-centre (I know, Sorry). It is 35 hours a week over six days and I get just over £11,000 per year before tax ect.

It may not be a particularly skilled job but there was a lot of training involved and a lot or regulations and bureaucracy ect. And being sworn at and spoken to like something on the bottom of ones shoe.

I am grateful to have a job don't get me wrong but I do feel as though i am underpaid. There are people whom have been working here for over ten years and they only get a few thousand a year more than I do so there does not even seem to be any scope for progression.

I would like to get another job but there is not much around and too many people applying for each and every job which is going.

Would you say I am right to be annoyed or does this sound about right?

Get a new job or don't. It is pointless getting annoyed about it.

ViolaLass

If there aren't many jobs around and lots of competition for them, you need to do something to get paid more. More training? More education?

Takeaway_Addict

Are you being paid NMW?

makeyourdaddyproud

Learn the business and set up on your own.

Bill.i.am

Horseunderwater wrote: »

Are you single & 25+ years old - if so you may be eligible for some working tax credit. Run details through this benefit checker to see.

I am currently getting Working Tax Credits, Without which I would on the bread line.

ViolaLass wrote: »

If there aren't many jobs around and lots of competition for them, you need to do something to get paid more. More training? More education?

Trying that route but difficult to fund and get time off for exams and the like.

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Are you being paid NMW?

Yes, Just About!!!!

marleyboy

I would look at the job as "filling in" until you can find something better. Just keep applying for the jobs you feel better suited to, as inevitably a vacancy can always turn up in your particular field, yet you have to be in it to win it.

Conrad

Bill.i.am wrote: »

Would you say I am right to be annoyed or does this sound about right?

I think life very much depends on attitude.
In my business I get a lot of approaches from Eastern Europeans wanting to explore getting a mortgage.


Most tended to have started right at the bottom is low paid work just as you describe.
They somehow tend to have this very positive sunny outlook (perhaps due to their own nations grind under communism) and this in all sorts of ways leads them to opportunity because other can-do people like associating with the same types, so a sort of mutual benefit ends up rubbing off on one another.


So to give you a specific example a Russian girl works in a hair salon, always sunny, happy to go the extra mile and yes to be a dogs body, never complained always head down working.
She was on under £9k pa at first.
Anyway fast forward to now and the owner is retiring and so much impressed with her he wants her to have the business. She hasn't much money but he said she can repay him slowly.


Had she moaned and groaned and hated her life she would never have fallen over this opportunity.


I used to think all this positive thinking stuff was airey fairey crud but I was wrong. But one caveat, some people go overboard and it comes across as insincere or people frame them as drippy dreamers.


So I guess modest quiet dignified positivity not OTT and silly.




My first job was 2 years as a warehouse stock picker, very low pay, after this I shoved myself into sales which took a lot for me as I was a shy youngster. Years later and I run my own business and have no one to answer to - bliss in my book!




Another key to success is to get the saving habit no matter how hard up you are.
Take out little policies such as a stocks n share ISA with direct debit and forget it. Do another little policy of some sort when you get your next pay rise, again then just forget it like a bill that's always there.


Years later this gives you opportunity and helps you through any bumps in the road. Don't have kids etc when young, hardly any middle class people fall 'accidentally' pregnant so it is perfectly doable.

Takeaway_Addict

Conrad- Why have you decided not to be regulated?

Transformers

Market forces I'm afraid.

Whilst the company can get people to do the job for that wage they will keep paying it.

If they started losing people and then couldn't recruit more then they'd have to re-think their remuneration package.

Harsh, but sadly, that's reality.