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Network Technician, doing a Network Managers job (partly) recently been taken over by a managed computer system, outsourced within the LEA, so I have no interaction with servers anymore :-(
But I'm currently on Bucks Pay Range 2, smack in the middle(19k pro rata'd). Over worked, underpaid. But that is the case with all support staff within education. However that said Buckinghamshire is a very wealthy county and its support staff are one of the poorer paid.
 
Current job - Lecturer in Finance

Working towards - Teaching less kids and more adults. I started in adult education which was sessional, so I'm happy that I'm now full time but want to get out of having to work in classrooms that smell of teenagers and I prefer teaching people who want to learn.

By the time I'd finished my accountancy qualification, I realised I didn't want to work in accountancy, so decided to teach instead. I earn a lot more now than I could in the industry with the level of qualification I have. I'm pretty content.
 
Current Job: An IT job where I don't do much work but get paid quite well
Salary: Way more than it should be
Moving towards: Something easier with better pay
 
Job: Warehouse/Logistics Operative
Salary: £7.44 (~£14,500)
Working towards: Not really sure yet. Job is crap but pays OK for what it is although I have been thinking of quitting recently.
 
Job: PhD Student
Salary: 1k/month tax free (more than enough, still living the student lifestyle)
Working towards: PhD (finish 25yrs old) -> Professor -> Retire from teaching at around 45-50 and write books and make monehs!. Or get my PhD and work for someone who is willing to pay me a healthy wage for little amount of work :D
 
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Job: Office Coordinator
Trade: Logistics & Distribution
Time Employed: 18 months
Salary: 14K

Working Towards? Not too sure at the moment - I used to be an IT Technician and I did 2 years at college to get my 2 Diplomas. I finished college in May 2007 and went on to be a techie in a school. Got made redundant in Aug 2008 as they could not afford to keep 3 techie's on, then my father took me on the day after my contract ended and been there ever since. I do miss IT but at the same time there isn't any jobs out there at all and I do enjoy what I do at the moment. Maybe if the right job comes up in the near future then I will go for it.

Liam
 
Job: Online marketing account manager
Time Employed: 1 year, first job since uni
Salary: 30k+
Location: London
Working towards: Up the ladder and into more high end companies
 
Job: Electrical Engineer Apprentice
Salary: Apprentice Salary :p
Working towards: Becoming a fully qualified Electrical & Gas Engineer :)
 
I was looking at Air Traffic Controlling or Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management - wouldn't know how to go about ATC, and not sure if I'd enjoy QS.

With University creeping up, selected uni's as Loughborough and Coventry and no current sponsor for my Loughborough QS course.. looks like a gap year and some serious career thinking for me.. :(

I enjoy working with cars, but wouldn't want to be a full time mechanic - too cold and the pay isn't that good. Love working with computers but don't want to be sat at a desk all day (the same with any job I aim for) and obviously.. looking for job security, good extra benefits such as pension schemes and possible company car. Originally wanted to be an electrician but I am slightly colourblind (red/brown/green).

Anything?
 
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Job: Apprentice IT technician.
Salary: National minimum wage. £9500ish a year. :(
Working towards: Some kind of development and implementation job with the company I just joined.
 
Don't go to Uni you'll end up 20k in debt and next to people who think they are owed a proper wage because they have got to University, all on flimsy A levels that exam boards give away nowadays.
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Thats alright when your kids are going to school, tell the teachers they wasted their time at uni?
How about when you're undergoing surgery, that surgeon should have been an entrepreneur, he's still alright to slice your guts open if he hadn't gone to uni.
Maybe when that CSI guy is photographing a crime scene with great precision, "Shouldve just bought a camera and gone round asking for jobs mate".

Christ, seriously?
People go to uni to learn and get on the path to the career they desire, these people are essential to our society.

Education is essential to skilled work, thats why it's called SKILLED work. Doesn't matter whether you get it through uni, apprenticeship or experience.
 
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I was looking at Air Traffic Controlling or Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management - wouldn't know how to go about ATC, and not sure if I'd enjoy QS.

With University creeping up, selected uni's as Loughborough and Coventry and no current sponsor for my Loughborough QS course.. looks like a gap year and some serious career thinking for me.. :(

I enjoy working with cars, but wouldn't want to be a full time mechanic - too cold and the pay isn't that good. Love working with computers but don't want to be sat at a desk all day (the same with any job I aim for) and obviously.. looking for job security, good extra benefits such as pension schemes and possible company car. Originally wanted to be an electrician but I am slightly colourblind (red/brown/green).

Anything?
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There are plenty of electronics and computers in cars nowadays. Do a decent uni course on embedded computing/electrical engineering/real time computing and get looking.

I've met people who work on the ECU systems for rally cars, travel the world with the WRC team (maybe not anymore the WRC basically doesnt exist!) but it sounded great. Its something I'm certainly considering getting into after uni, along with the usual financial/military sector type stuff.

A good degree in CompSci or even better various Engineering (MechEng/ElecEng/CompEng whatever) can get you anywhere.

For the sake of thread continuity.....

Job: Intern Engineer @ Broadcom
Salary: 16k (Placement wages ftl :()
Working towards: Finishing my degree I guess!
 
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Job Title: Senior ICT Support Engineer (HAH - Over-inflated way of saying 3rd line).

Salary: Enough not to worry.
Working Towards: Knowledge.

Love my job 99% of the time :)
 
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