Whats your Career?

I've recently given up my job in International Investment Banking to set up my own consultancy so that I can spend some more time with my family. I have gone from working 100+ hours per week, and not knowing where in the world I was going to be from 1 week to the next, to just over 20 hours a week and its fantastic.

I have given up a lot of benefits, like the superb pay and hanging around with very wealthy people but it has been worth it.

I have taken a significant pay cut to go it alone, but the opportunity to spend a lot more time with my wife and daughter, and see her grow up outways any amount of money that I was earning. However, it is helped a lot more by the fact that my career did pay off my mortgage, and allow us to by a couple of other properties so that the wife can dabble in property management whilst I was away.

Just to show those people that are asking how much money is involved in X, Y's and Z's career that it isnt everything. Somethings are a lot more rewarding than careers paying loads.
 
Twinblade said:
I've recently given up my job in International Investment Banking to set up my own consultancy so that I can spend some more time with my family. I have gone from working 100+ hours per week, and not knowing where in the world I was going to be from 1 week to the next, to just over 20 hours a week and its fantastic.

I have given up a lot of benefits, like the superb pay and hanging around with very wealthy people but it has been worth it.

I have taken a significant pay cut to go it alone, but the opportunity to spend a lot more time with my wife and daughter, and see her grow up outways any amount of money that I was earning. However, it is helped a lot more by the fact that my career did pay off my mortgage, and allow us to by a couple of other properties so that the wife can dabble in property management whilst I was away.

Just to show those people that are asking how much money is involved in X, Y's and Z's career that it isnt everything. Somethings are a lot more rewarding than careers paying loads.
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I work with Investment Bankers on a daily basis and I could put my hand on my heart and say I couldn't do it. For me the hours are too much, being away from friends and family and having to drop everything at a minutes notice are too much of a sacrifice. Fair play to you, I have a lot of respect for anyone who can work in this profession.

What kind of consultancy have you setup?
 
Adam said:
I work with Investment Bankers on a daily basis and I could put my hand on my heart and say I couldn't do it. For me the hours are too much, being away from friends and family and having to drop everything at a minutes notice are too much of a sacrifice. Fair play to you, I have a lot of respect for anyone who can work in this profession.

What kind of consultancy have you setup?
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That was pretty much the only problem with, unfortunately it was the main focal point of the job. As for the new job, I am staying in the Investment side of things, but only looking after some of the clients that I had before I left.

I have limited my portfolio to no more than 10 clients so that I can give them the attention that their money commands, and they are more than happy for the personal service. It is still well paid, but obviously I don't get the bonuses that I used to get, and with a limited number of clients, I don't earn as much as before.

Some of the clients I get paid a set salary type wage from them, and sometimes I can go months or so without speaking to them, so effectively free money, whereas the others pay me as and when I am needed.
 
Am I a Stockbroker? Am I a Quantity Surveyor? Am I a Churchwarden? No, I'm Bicyc-
No, wait. I'm a Quantity Surveyor. Can't fix bikes at all :(

Well, QS in training, at least. Work for Taylor Woodrow. And I'll be happy if at least one person on the forum knows what a QS is.
 
\^-^/

I've taken to explaining it as 'Kind of like a project manager' to people I meet, as trying to explain what a QS is/saying you count bricks doesn't look as good :P
 
Senior Field service engineer in the gaming industry, 80k miles a year, rubbish hours even worse money (although I'm paid close to double what other industry enginners get :D ) I was stupid enough not to pay attention at school, pah who needs qualifications! Twenty years on I wish I had :/

Currently looking at getting out of the industry before I hit 40, perhaps combining my hobbies (licensed radio ham and of course computing) with a career choice.

S
 
Self-employed in the IT trade, been going officially since half-way through uni - was 2 months into my placement year of computer science and left to set up my own wee operation since I had a fair bit of custom already to work on and a few leads to chase up. Been going almost 3 years now and couldn't ever change, I just never thought of being able to work any other way. I've only spent 2 months of my life in I.T. working for someone else (did do other bar jobs etc when I was younger).

Work involves server setups & network maintenance (anything from 5 to ~40 client machines), and a fair bit of software writing - more recent projects have been for a car dealership, a scrapyard, recruitment agency and currently on a patient info & image database for a hospital.

It has busy weeks, quiet weeks and ridiculously flat-out weeks. It does make me a lot of money considering my age but I'm not driven by that - it could be down to knowing that the work I'm doing is for myself, or that I like I.T. an awful lot, or the more flexible lifestyle, or a combination of those, I'm not quite sure. But it's a good way to be if the opportunity's there :) I would admit that I was fortunate in getting into it at an early age (First started looking after local business IT systems when I was 15) and I could build up contacts when still at school & uni. I'd find it hard to just leave a comfy salary position at say the age of 30 to go on my own, when likely having a family and house to look after and go for potentially months on an uncertain income.
 
im a waterjet person , I take a technical drawing , draw it up into a cad dxf format then cut whatever it is , 10 inch thick steel , carbon fibre , anything really with a 60,000psi jet of water.
Best thing for me is that its only 3nights a week :)
 
cat herder - AKA Technical Manager for small IT services company.

Today i have dealt with broken AC in our server room, met with the AC guy to discuss improvements and costs. Met with the MD of a development company re bringing our internal systems into the 1990's, fix a few customer issues, helped with a quote or two, made arrangements for a vendor to come to a customer event and demo their solution to our customers and a few other sundry things.

Now i'm having a bite to eat and a breather.
 
moon man said:
im a waterjet person , I take a technical drawing , draw it up into a cad dxf format then cut whatever it is , 10 inch thick steel , carbon fibre , anything really with a 60,000psi jet of water.
Best thing for me is that its only 3nights a week :)
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Can you remove the green stuff off conservatories too ?
 
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