my first job after getting a phd got me £22k iirc.
2 years further on about £10k has been added onto that.
A 50% raise over 2 years is pretty good, it's taken me 5 years to manage 50% increase on my starting wage, lol!
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A 50% raise over 2 years is pretty good, it's taken me 5 years to manage 50% increase on my starting wage, lol!
I started on 8.5k in 1998 at the company I'm still at now, for the last 3 years I've taken well over £30k and I had a recent promotion.
I expect my take-home money to drop, but the OOH work to disappear completely.
So I've quadrupled my starting wage in a decade, and am well ahead in terms of age x 1000 = desirable pay.
Didn't go to Uni or any of that nonsense, and live and work in the dark, grim north.
I expect my take-home money to drop, but the OOH work to disappear completely.
So I've quadrupled my starting wage in a decade, and am well ahead in terms of age x 1000 = desirable pay.
Didn't go to Uni or any of that nonsense, and live and work in the dark, grim north.
Pah 900,000 hours without an LTI, we just hit 3mil
/Gets coat, runs, trips over.
It was a new site. I think they've hit 10 million before.
What do you do BTW? You sound sometimes like you do O&G but you obviously don't.
You sound bitter. Good graduates are still in demand. Much later in life, getting into senior management is near impossible without a degree, as you aren't a part of "the club"; a good university education does improve you in many ways. The glass ceiling is much lower for those without the proper education.
...which can be a good or bad thing depending on what sort of job you end up in!
I think it is very common (and perhaps understandable) for employers/co-workers to judge staff purely on what they see from workers and what sort of role they are in. This was very apparent at my firm last year when a skills matrix was drawn up, it almost defeated the whole point of it (documenting skill levels to allow more dynamic resource allocation) because staff were pressured into agreeing ratings which loosely tied in with job roles. They seemed totally oblivious to what might be on a person's CV, what experience they might have had before joining the company etc.
Did you think I was serious about the dark, grim north bit too?
It was a new site. I think they've hit 10 million before.
What do you do BTW? You sound sometimes like you do O&G but you obviously don't.
I obviously don't as I don't have the foggiest what O&G even means
Unofficially the Engi off TF2 was modelled on me (well the dancing and dress sense), but officially I'm an engineer of sub-surface hidey trains
