You sort of hit the nail on the head as to the secret of earning more money. The truth is people generally hold themselves back at a value they think they are worth i.e 15k, 20k, 25k, 30k so they only look for (and apply) jobs in the range they think they are worth.
The truth is people who earn "monopoly money" are not cleverer than people earning 25k, it's just they apply for those jobs and get them.
What about the fact that the higher paid positions advertised want someone with experience that I don't have and also qualifications that I don't have?
24,000 although with bonuses I will get very close to 30,000 by April, just a few hundred short of that. For what I do, it's as good a salary as you'll get so it's ample for me.
However, with the wifes earnings, tax credits, family allowance etc we're well below 40,000 combined which doesn't really break even.
Less than £15k working full time on min wage, If I wasn't to work I'd rake in similar in housing benefit, tax credits etc, So why am I working again?
To get out of the house, to have a sense of worth, to meet other people, to progess in your job. If you don't meet any of those criteria or others mentioned, you might as well sit on the dole.
If you don't want to say, understandable, but for the people who wouldn't mind, how much money do you earn from your job? Either half time or full time.
For me, I earn £7.35 an hour at a wedding venue. Not bad for a part time job as an 18 year old. Out of the people I know of the same age, I do get paid the most out of a fair majority.
My new job I am getting £9 an hour and I'll be doing between 10 and 15 hours a week.
In my journalism career, the most I got paid was £19,000 a year working as a digital news producer in London in 2001.
16 hours on NMW wage £400 something a month
Plus Working Tax credits of roughly £93 a week
DLA of £87 a month
But I pay for my Bus fares which costs me £13 a week or £52 a month
Plus buy my own lunch.
I pay council tax and £36 a week rent (half my rent is paid)
Not really better or worse off then if I was on JSA
That is a large pension pot you have. Mine is measly as I couldn't save about £400k into a pension pot in my life !!
36 years service, (government job, science research, computing dept.). Pension 36/80 of final salary. (not sure if final salary, "set in stone" pensions still exists today?)
I also had a lump sum of about £67,000 because I paid extra pension contributions.
Had a year off due to personal problems in the eighties, then returned, but my previous service 'years' still counted for my pension.
I admit, it was a rather lucrative pension system, Not that Im complaining..I dont think they have these schemes any more.
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What about the fact that the higher paid positions advertised want someone with experience that I don't have and also qualifications that I don't have?
How do you reconcile that with your post?!
Of course, dear.
You're a new poster with a handful of posts and you bump a three year old thread.
Nothing fishy about that at all, no siree. Not at all.
Good on you. A decade after university, I earnt 8500 in the 2005-06 tax year, as I had for the couple of years prior. Things picked up from there.
However, with the wifes earnings, tax credits, family allowance etc we're well below 40,000 combined which doesn't really break even.
To get out of the house, to have a sense of worth, to meet other people, to progess in your job. If you don't meet any of those criteria or others mentioned, you might as well sit on the dole.
Husband now on £26k.
I earn a pittance now, zero hours contract on minimum wage!
I'm still in this job and am now earning £14k which is still quite low compared to similar jobs.
Its more hours and a longer commute - but I am willing to put myself out quite a lot for that jump in wages.
Hehe, I'm a translator, not an interpreter. ;-)
Ooh, same field as me!
Systems? Semiconductor?
My new job I am getting £9 an hour and I'll be doing between 10 and 15 hours a week.
In my journalism career, the most I got paid was £19,000 a year working as a digital news producer in London in 2001.
Plus Working Tax credits of roughly £93 a week
DLA of £87 a month
But I pay for my Bus fares which costs me £13 a week or £52 a month
Plus buy my own lunch.
I pay council tax and £36 a week rent (half my rent is paid)
Not really better or worse off then if I was on JSA
That is a large pension pot you have. Mine is measly as I couldn't save about £400k into a pension pot in my life !!
But the people who used to do my job in our other office were on £35k for the same thing .
So we are a bit disgruntled
They either pay me more this year, or I will take my sensational talents elsewhere
I also had a lump sum of about £67,000 because I paid extra pension contributions.
Had a year off due to personal problems in the eighties, then returned, but my previous service 'years' still counted for my pension.
I admit, it was a rather lucrative pension system, Not that Im complaining..I dont think they have these schemes any more.