Poll: What Salary would you be happy with?

What would you be happy with?

  • I don't care about money

    Votes: 21 2.9%

  • <£18,000

    Votes: 12 1.7%

  • £18,001-£23,000

    Votes: 26 3.6%

  • £23,001-£30,000

    Votes: 71 9.8%

  • £30,001-£40,000

    Votes: 153 21.2%

  • £40,001-£50,000

    Votes: 116 16.1%

  • £50,001-£75,000

    Votes: 106 14.7%

  • £75,001-£100,000

    Votes: 80 11.1%

  • £100,001-£250,000

    Votes: 58 8.0%

  • £250,001-£500,000

    Votes: 16 2.2%

  • Millions!

    Votes: 63 8.7%
  • Total voters
    722
britboy4321 said:
There are easy jobs out there that pay 6-figures. Why everyone thinks you have to give up your life and work like a slave to earn that is beyond me.
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Well whilst I agreeing part to what you're saying, this is a bit of a general statement.

For instance there's not a great deal of contract work in my neck of the woods, which would mean travelling/living away from family during the week which would go to meeting the 'giving up your life' part.

I choose not to do that (well I am at the moment but only for another week!) so have a permy job closer to home.

GSXRMovistar said:
And just how does a contractor talk and walk? :p
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From my experience usually with cowboy boots and hat ;)

He is right in that contracting can be very lucrative and a way for people to earn big money for periods of time.

I know plenty of contractors who are on decent money, no chance in hell they'd be on that money if in a permy job.
 
Milkybk said:
Do you think it's worth possibly doing some sort of shorter foundation course at the OU to get back into studying and then apply for Sheffield next year?

I'm bothering because I am genuinely interested in what I'm doing and want to further myself through academics as well as experience. You should always push yourself to do more than you are and be ambitious. I want to learn, I want to improve.. surely that's a huge part of any successful engineers attitude. It has been in all the best ones I've worked with.

Got one shot at life and I'm not going to sit around accepting that what I've achieved is "enough". Why would I when I'm capable of so much more?
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Exactly. amazing attitude. if i was a betting man, my money would be on you reaching the top. the very top. hats off, and all that ... :-)
 
QuickLink said:
I have c.3 yrs IT work experience. Started in support as I had to somewhere. Moved after a year. Did some projects. Moved after a year. Contract. I now earn c.500 a day from starting 3yrs ago on 16k pa.

He's not wrong. Oh, and we're probably gifted as well.
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I have to ask, in what field specifically within IT?

I'd seriously consider taking up contracting if I knew the route to go down.
 
If you give me a choice with millions included in that choice then of course I'm going to pick millions. The more money I have the better.
 
I'd be happy enough to double my wage by the time I'm 30 so £30k.

Obviously more money is better but I love my job for the money I get paid just now.

If all went to plan I'd be able to take over from my boss and enjoy the lifestyle of owning your own business. He makes good money doing it and can pick and choose when he comes in or goes a ride on his bike.
 
In todays money, I would be quite happy to end on 40-50k, hopefully nearer 50k and it is certainly achievable within my line of work.

I would settle for that. Anything else is a bonus! Not really motivated by money, it just helps. I rarely do overtime if it is offered as I value my time away from work more! But, that's just me.
 
There's a difference between ambition and having a target salary to be happy/comfortable at, but compared to some people I probably do lack ambition in sense that most understand it. What I have in technical aptitude I make up for in lack of ability to outwardly impose that - I've been turned down for very basic jobs in the past (paying under half my current salary) that I could have done with my eyes closed.

It's also true that when I came up with that formula I was earning a lot less than I am now so had a slightly different view of the world - when I graduated from uni I took a job paying only £10k/year which I found difficult to move on from because it lacked much in the way of outwardly visible transferrable skills. This stunted my development a little because it wasn't until I was 26 that I got a 'proper' job.

Realistically I should be getting paid something closer to your 'target' than mine, based on what other people doing similar roles are on, but time will tell whether I get there or not.
 
I want to be on 100k by the time I'm 30, I personally don't think this is unachievable and I believe ambition is a good thing.

To be honest, I agree with Britboy on something he said in this thread, it doesn't matter how many 100k a year jobs are there or where you come from or what your background is, for those of us who didn't have rich parents/uncles to guide them hand by hand there's only 1 thing that will make you success in the professional world really, motivation, ambition and confidence and I believe these are 3 very important things that any one must have to success with any goal.
 
franco_22 said:
there's only 1 thing that will make you success in the professional world really, motivation, ambition and confidence and I believe these are 3 very important things that any one must have to success with any goal.
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So amongst your qualities are such diverse elements as motivation, ambition, confidence and an almost fanatical devotion to the pope?
 
been in option 5 for the last year, take home of 2k or just over a month after tax would be happy with high option 5 or 6 looking to leave current job as its stressful as ****
 
Vonhelmet said:
So amongst your qualities are such diverse elements as motivation, ambition, confidence and an almost fanatical devotion to the pope?
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I'm really confused... are you aiming that post at me ? :eek:

Because I can understand if you think I'm bragging about the motivation/ambition part but where the heck did the pope bit came from ? :confused:
 
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