The 5 year plan to £50k

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lunar said:
Solution is driverless trains. They have it on dlr (docklands light railway). It works well and most importantly there are no strikes.
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They all have a guard on them that checks tickets and opens and closes the doors. From what I can make out that's one more thing than the tube drivers do!
 
skaif said:
Lol I gave up after the first page!
Got a tldr?
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OP wanted a 50k job within 5 years, only if it was easy, without him having to move out of his mums, with no quals. He thought jobs under 30k were soley about driving trucks and emptying bins.

He had 40k in the bank and wanted to get a mortgage even though his job was ending in 6 months and he had no options for further employment,

He then would only move out if he could have a cat, which he would love unconditionally. This turned into something about "furries" and how he wanted a cat more than a 50k a year job.

There was a big section about 86JR earning £10million a month or some such nonsense.

Lots of people gave him sound ideas to which he did the sum total of nothing about following it up.

People started willy waving about how much they earn.

OP bought a Toyota Yaris 1.3 petrol which he had to google how to open the fuel cap.

Still nowhere near the magical 50k mark.
 
Greebo said:
Nope. They were talking about that on question time this week. They said that unlike other sectors tube drivers have had a strong and active union and their wages rises have kept their rate of pay very competitive.

Its actually £49,673 after the 3 (not 6 as I said earlier) months training and £30,166 whilst training.

After 5 years this rises to £60k per annum.

The deal they have rejected this week is £1,200 payrise and £2,000 bonus for working on one of the all night service lines.

Meanwhile teachers, firemen, police etc all start on around £23k.

And lastly the annual holiday entitlement is 43 days holiday for a tube driver plus the average working hours is 36 hours a week.

Lastly the only qualification needed is GCSE in Maths and English.

Don;t get me wrong, I don't think i could do it. It would drive me mad been underground all day.

And Fox, yes there is a massive waiting list and hard to get in. Of course there is when you look to see that in 5 years you will be on £60k per annum (well probably more like £67k with the annual payrises the unions get for them) for 36 hours and 43 days holiday. I was just pointing out that there are jobs out that that pay more than 50k per annum which dont require skills or qualifications.

In fact Tube drivers are paid more per hour than MP's
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they've also got free travel across the network + free travel for a spouse/partner/friend... so if they say buy a family home on the outskirts of London they're getting an extra 5k a year from that perk alone
 
JOSH86 said:
OP wanted a 50k job within 5 years, only if it was easy, without him having to move out of his mums, with no quals. He thought jobs under 30k were soley about driving trucks and emptying bins.

He had 40k in the bank and wanted to get a mortgage even though his job was ending in 6 months and he had no options for further employment,

He then would only move out if he could have a cat, which he would love unconditionally. This turned into something about "furries" and how he wanted a cat more than a 50k a year job.

There was a big section about 86JR earning £10million a month or some such nonsense.

Lots of people gave him sound ideas to which he did the sum total of nothing about following it up.

People started willy waving about how much they earn.

OP bought a Toyota Yaris 1.3 petrol which he had to google how to open the fuel cap.

Still nowhere near the magical 50k mark.
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Great summary, 10/10. :D
 
yeah I forgot about the free travel pass perk. I loved that when I worked for London Underground myself back in 1990. Even back then I was getting paid £27k by them for a menial job and practically any idiot could have done.
 
JOSH86 said:
OP wanted a 50k job within 5 years, only if it was easy, without him having to move out of his mums, with no quals. He thought jobs under 30k were soley about driving trucks and emptying bins.

He had 40k in the bank and wanted to get a mortgage even though his job was ending in 6 months and he had no options for further employment,

He then would only move out if he could have a cat, which he would love unconditionally. This turned into something about "furries" and how he wanted a cat more than a 50k a year job.

There was a big section about 86JR earning £10million a month or some such nonsense.

Lots of people gave him sound ideas to which he did the sum total of nothing about following it up.

People started willy waving about how much they earn.

OP bought a Toyota Yaris 1.3 petrol which he had to google how to open the fuel cap.

Still nowhere near the magical 50k mark.
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Lol what a wetty.
 
JOSH86 said:
OP wanted a 50k job within 5 years, only if it was easy, without him having to move out of his mums, with no quals. He thought jobs under 30k were soley about driving trucks and emptying bins.

He had 40k in the bank and wanted to get a mortgage even though his job was ending in 6 months and he had no options for further employment,

He then would only move out if he could have a cat, which he would love unconditionally. This turned into something about "furries" and how he wanted a cat more than a 50k a year job.

There was a big section about 86JR earning £10million a month or some such nonsense.

Lots of people gave him sound ideas to which he did the sum total of nothing about following it up.

People started willy waving about how much they earn.

OP bought a Toyota Yaris 1.3 petrol which he had to google how to open the fuel cap.

Still nowhere near the magical 50k mark.
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I have been following the thread since it started, but that is a great TL;DR :p
 
It also fades when idiots come and **** all over it.

Let the guy be, what are you hoping to achieve by bringkng this up and having another go at it?
 
Diddums said:
Why are you guys bashing someone who had more ambition than many, and hasn't returned to this thread?
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It's hardly ambition stating you'd like to earn £50k a year on an Internet forum whilst having no realistic steps to get you there, or even an idea of what you'd like to earn £50k doing. Ambition would be saying you'd like to be a Doctor and you're going to get the qualifications and apply to Med school
 
I moved Country, did it in much less time. I'm still broke lol.

Hopefully the OP is having some luck and has decided to move out of Cornwall (at least to Gloucester!).
 
DAIR said:
As for the OP. I'm rather disappointed in you. 30 and only on 27k. Perhaps that's a little harsh. Perhaps things would be different if you lived in a city like London.

Anyways, you're still alive and kicking. So plenty of time to make it work.
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It's hardly a salary to be ashamed about considering where he lives. It's still above the national average so the OP is already doing pretty well.

While getting to £50k would be nice I think finding a job that you want to get out of bed for should be the real aim.
 
27k at 30 is nothing to be ashamed off. Like I said, my aim in life was to always earn more than my age each year which i have achieved despite starting my first full time job at £7,500 when I was 21 so it seemed a pretty good ambition.

This was with having a degree as well.
 
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