What is your job?

Clipsey said:
Over here Physical Therapists make very decent money, especially after a few years. Starting out can be anywhere from $60-75k and then obviously more as you increase your experience and knowledge.
But I 'dream' of opening my own practice - but this will be a long way away :)
What Doctorate are you going for?
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My Doctorate is in Education (focusing on new media literacy), not sure what route to take after, my other degrees are in computer science and media production (video editing, screenwriting, etc). But hey, I will be 25 when I finish the PhD so might go into something completely different, the world is your oyster as they say :o. Would you be looking at a managerial job or further research as a career?
 
digipeep said:
This thread is going to be interesting.

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.

I've you want to start a job somewhere, try being entrepreneurial and start your own business failing that McDonalds have a good career progression scheme.
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I guessed it would take 5 posts, but it only took 2 until the whining grumpyboots types came out of the wood work to have a good moan at university :p

I have no problem with people who didn't go to university, why is such moaning always this way round?

Job: student
Salary: n/a
Working towards: trainee commercial solicitor (£~25k to ~40k from trainee to qualified)
 
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-Ad- said:
Nice !

Just seemed quite a career step for someone with what seems at first glance no engineering experience at all. Good luck anyway.
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Yeh I have no real engineering experience. I studied geography at uni, although have no interest in pursuing a geography based career. I've always wanted to join the RAF.
 
Yay i got accepted for a job today after 9 months on 800p/m of benefits and searching for a job!!

I will be installing aerials and set top boxes for old people for the digital switchover.

Only a 6 month contract but it gives me another string to my bow and the possibility of a permanent contract. I'm really happy!! :D
 
Job: ISP Network Manager
Salary: £45K

I work for a US Telco/ISP and look after the UK and Irish network. Involves deployment, maintenance, customer activities, admin and finance. Actually a lot of my time is working in cold noisy data centres.

I love it 100% of the time, never a bad day really.
 
i have the distinct pleasure of working for an Odeon. not great pay but it helps me pay the bills whilst im at uni.
studying geography, and have no idea what kind of job i want at the end of it... which is in about 4 months! :confused:
 
Job: Postgrad in cosmology
Salary: Was ~12k a year, but is now nothing as I'm writing up
Working Towards: Becoming a patent attorney
 
Current job - ICT Tech (I think that's what its still called anyway.)
Salary - £16.8k ( I think)
What are you working towards - £24k (2 years max)
 
Current job - PACS Manager
Salary - NHS Band 7 - £29k-39k (increases yearly)
What are you working towards - Radiology/PACS Service Delivery Manager (Band 8a/8b)

For those that don't know what PACS is, it's digital imaging so film-less radiography
 
spm_uk said:
I'm guessing you are more interested in the research side than lecturing? how long have your fellowship postings been?
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I think it boils down to wanting an easy life. Producing high-end research is difficult, and it's much easier to move to a mediocre university where all you need do is spend a few hours a week lecturing, with some administration things on the side and take almost all the pressures off the research side of things. It's possible I feel like this at the moment because I feel like I've had to jump lots of hurdles and don't want to jump anymore. Perhaps in ten years time my top end priority will be to produce high-end research - it's difficult to tell.

The lengths of the fellowships I've referred to are 1-2yrs and 3-5yrs, but this route is by no means typical. Usual root would be:

PhD -> Postdoc1 -> ... -> PostdocN -> Departmental position or different career,

where N can be anything from 1 to 5, each lasting 1-3yrs.
 
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