What's your salary?

[Woodpecker]

Cleaner in flatshare equals lame flatshare imo

[underwriter]

[Yung bawse]

I can see the appeal.. What isit like £10 an hour for couple hours once a week? Bit of hooving and polishing doesn't bother me tho.. Always some point during the weekend when I get bored and it fills the time nicely

[SLEAZE BALL]

I have a cleaner

[Woodpecker]

I always knew you were one of the cool kids

[Niall Ferguson]

verbal diarrhoea in here

[Flex]

Anyone here have a cleaner?

Was gon make a thread but can't be arsed

After my reaction when she first asked, shes saying everyone she knows has a cleaner and it's a 'normal' thing. I'm a bit shocked tbh. She's right as well. Everyone seems to have a cleaner.

twice a week

[Brem]

Anyone here have a cleaner?

Was gon make a thread but can't be arsed

After my reaction when she first asked, shes saying everyone she knows has a cleaner and it's a 'normal' thing. I'm a bit shocked tbh. She's right as well. Everyone seems to have a cleaner.

twice a week

Gonna get a cleaner because I can't be jacked. The wife calls this laziness. I say, what time I have has leisure I don't want to be spending cleaning the house. Currently planning for once a week

[Sinister]

Yeah I gotta say it's all relative.

 

When I was on circa £38k and living in brum, I had that life; rent was dirt cheap for such a nice apartment, going out was cheaper and everything relative to my salary was.

 

I'm on more now but London based, which means more rent, travel is fucking expensive and everything just is more.

 

I get what Yuri and Badman are saying, sometimes I feel like I know I can afford nice things, but I choose not to as it means it's eating into my monthly savings target. 

 

For me, the most important thing is having that deposit in 12/18 months times to buy a place. Don't matter how much to earn whether it's £20k or £120k, it's what you do with the cash that matters.

[Brem]

Forget the national average salary. A good way to think about things is 1k per year. I.e. You are 25, you should be earning atleast 25k. Anything less is a flop that you need to rectify, unless you are in education or some other factor.

My next yard stick for the next year is be on above 50k before I reach 30 at the end of this year.

Life isn't all about work. But while you are youngish you have a period of your life where you have the opportunity to set yourself up for the remainder. My wife doesn't understand this but I do.

I saw my dad work like a dog until he was 60. Working 16hours per day. He had the responsibility of a kid, a house, a wife that was ill and didn't work. Worked himself into an early grave. At 60 it is not the one. It was all for nothing in the end. When he suffered a stroke his business collapsed and that was it.

I pledged that I would set myself up before kids. Not trying to do things after the fact.

[underwriter]

Forget the national average salary. A good way to think about things is 1k per year. I.e. You are 25, you should be earning atleast 25k. Anything less is a flop that you need to rectify, unless you are in education or some other factor.

My next yard stick for the next year is be on above 50k before I reach 30 at the end of this year.

Life isn't all about work. But while you are youngish you have a period of your life where you have the opportunity to set yourself up for the remainder. My wife doesn't understand this but I do.

I saw my dad work like a dog until he was 60. Working 16hours per day. He had the responsibility of a kid, a house, a wife that was ill and didn't work. Worked himself into an early grave. At 60 it is not the one. It was all for nothing in the end. When he suffered a stroke his business collapsed and that was it.

I pledged that I would set myself up before kids. Not trying to do things after the fact.

this is what im talking about... not doing it during

 make sure ereting set up before kids come here

[MetaFives]

Always said that I wanted to be on around 30k by time I am 30, managed to exceed that by mid 20's and now next milestone is 50k.

Key thing is being able to continue progressing in chosen field, some people I know are earning decently but they have essentially hit a ceiling as they can't really learn anything new that will improve their skills directly enough to justify a higher salary.

[Brem]

I made my uncle cry to be honest. Felt no shame.

He is in and out of work. He suffers depression and has mental illness. He has a wide and a kid. Started crying infront of me telling me how hard it is in this country blah blah blah.

I straight turned around and said. The opportunities here are vast. I had to deal with working from 14 in some local shop cash in hand for 2 quid an hour or less. Homelessness. Dealing with severely mentally ill mother who was abusive. All while maintaining Sats, gcses, a levels and a degree. Washing my own clothes from 13, cooking, cleaning in addition to the above after my dad's business collapsed, we lost our house and my parents divorced. All while receiving no family support from the extended family.

Straight said "why are you crying infront of me. Fix up you have a son and at this rate all you're going to leave him is a bill for your funeral. If nothing else, work to improve your lives for him."

Maybe I'm smarter than him. May be I caught a few breaks. Maybe he can't handle his mental issues. But I have little sympathy for sob stories. If I can improve my situation anyone can. I am above average intelligence but nothing naturally special. I had graft about me. I am a couple of years older than some of my peers of the same level. They don't know my history and they never will. But I am making up for the lost years of halted progress and can say hand on heart that it wasn't handed to me like many of the middle class private school pricks I work with.

Graft. Is the operative word. Jealousy when focused is a good thing. Controversial i know. But my jealousy took me far. Not jealousy in the sense that I want any one to lose what they have. Jealousy that I want what they have and more. I'm a complex character.

[YFSD]

Always said that I wanted to be on around 30k by time I am 30, managed to exceed that by mid 20's and now next milestone is 50k.

Key thing is being able to continue progressing in chosen field, some people I know are earning decently but they have essentially hit a ceiling as they can't really learn anything new that will improve their skills directly enough to justify a higher salary.

This is my problem, I'm looking to hit 47k basic this year at some point but that's the ceiling. There's no scope for me to raise that basic at that point. I can earn extra through OT etc and should realistically break 50k but my basic won't increase past 47.

[Brem]

Always said that I wanted to be on around 30k by time I am 30, managed to exceed that by mid 20's and now next milestone is 50k.

Key thing is being able to continue progressing in chosen field, some people I know are earning decently but they have essentially hit a ceiling as they can't really learn anything new that will improve their skills directly enough to justify a higher salary.

This is my problem, I'm looking to hit 47k basic this year at some point but that's the ceiling. There's no scope for me to raise that basic at that point. I can earn extra through OT etc and should realistically break 50k but my basic won't increase past 47.

There is. Technical skills stop at a certain level. But management then becomes key. Can you manage and lead aspects of what you do. Can you bring in more money and win business. Think about what you can do outside the norm of your job and exploit those. That's how you keep yourself moving up.

Either that or make yourself indispensable and pick the point when you sit down and say give me this or i am gone.

[YFSD]

It wont work either way like that tbh

Management won't earn as much as the lower level

Can't be indispensable at a job where it's not based on performance

[Sinister]

But you need to sell yourself as someone who is able to undertake jobs/tasks that no one else has the knowledge of or only you can do.

 

I hated when I started this job that I was expected to do loads of work which no one else wanted to do. Now, people know that if I don't do it, no one else will; that means I can bargain.

 

Is there no niche you can go into and use that to sell yourself?

[underwriter]

my boy lost his job because he wasnt good at it... i only thought that was in sales

[FinalBawse]

....

[Yoshie]

my boy lost his job because he wasnt good at it... i only thought that was in sales

 

[Supermalt]

What fields are you guys in, probably the only factor to take into account when aiming for x salary.

 

Fix up you have a son and at this rate all you're going to leave him is a bill for your funeral.

 

he definitely caught life when you said this, wow.

[Yung bawse]

Think it's prob better to work out what you get paid hourly ( on average) cuz if you're on 50k and working 70+ hours a week and someone else is on 40k working 9-5 then the latter obviously has the better pay

[YFSD]

But you need to sell yourself as someone who is able to undertake jobs/tasks that no one else has the knowledge of or only you can do.

I hated when I started this job that I was expected to do loads of work which no one else wanted to do. Now, people know that if I don't do it, no one else will; that means I can bargain.

Is there no niche you can go into and use that to sell yourself?

Not really. It's a complicated one.

I'm happy to sit on 50k for a little while though tbh

[Yuri]

Think it's prob better to work out what you get paid hourly ( on average) cuz if you're on 50k and working 70+ hours a week and someone else is on 40k working 9-5 then the latter obviously has the better pay

Nobody who is doing a professional job is getting paid hourly or working a '9-5'

 

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if you make 28k a year working 9-5, but i work 9-8 and make 40...at the end of the year i'm still making more money.  depends whether you'd rather be overworked or underpaid and on your financial goals

[Brem]

What fields are you guys in, probably the only factor to take into account when aiming for x salary.

 

Fix up you have a son and at this rate all you're going to leave him is a bill for your funeral.

 

he definitely caught life when you said this, wow.

I might be deep but I speak real talk.

Man is 25-30 years my senior. Don't loose barl to me. It's not tough times when you've been flopping from day. I've never understood why some people lack ambition and point to every factor bar themselves as to why their life isnt moving on levels.