What do you all do?

[Dischord]

as in jobs?

how much do you earn per hour?

and how did you get there (what training was involved etc)

I feel at a complete brick wall with my shitty job and really need to sort myself out now but don't have a clue what to do. Hoping to get some ideas if anything
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[McGee]

I do nothing, and I stay in the states.

I earn nothing.

How did I get here. I got kicked out of uni, I got lazy and fat


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[steveh]

bike mechanic, worked my time at moto guzzi dealer, then moved to a yamaha dealer. (mainly motorcross)

not sure but i come out with about 200 a week
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[MaybeGuy]

marine engineer

£150 a week, but im in first year training still...
up to £200 a week on year 2, and up by £50 a year per week after that until my training is finished (4 years).

not to mention the promotional prospects
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[Itchy]

Accountant / Tax expert / Auditor,

P/H not nearly enough (its said I am being paid 35% under market value 9 months ago I was being paid 65% under market value).

However its quite easy to work here , ie I COULD skip job next week (I did actually skip office since this company has 3 offices and work under the wing of a fairly good boss and they gave me a bit more for travel costs of such a move), for up to 40K , BUT they would actually work me for it properly to get value for their money.

Got here by falling into it, I originally graduated years ago in something else, couldn't get a job , went on exodus for a very long time, did some night classes , did about 10 exams , and thought this isn't too bad a career, traveled all over doing jobs to get experience as experience is always key, returned 2 years later fell into a horrible job, year later jumped , 7 months later moved to a difference office.


EDIT

If I hear the words

"well a bloke down the pub told me....."

"my next door neighbour doesn't pay as much tax as me"

I'll scream , especially as you are effectively making over 500K and paying less tax than I am.
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[feef]

Senior DBA and infrastructure architect.

Taught myself web application programming, and it went from there...

not saying how much I'm earning, but it's "enough"

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[TheShaggyDA]

[instigator]

Mechanical Design Engineer.

Salary - Enough to get by but we always want more, don't we?

Good thing about what I do is the qualification is in most countries skills shortage List so if I wanted to, I could go to Oz or somewhere with pretty ladies - Denmark. Pretty easy to get into and well, we're not going to stop putting up commercial buildings or maintaining the mechanical systems within so any recession rumours don't really phase me.

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering and fell into a sponsorship deal with sealed my fate within the building services industry. Would have preferred to get into Finance after the degree as I'm a pleb who will work lots of overtime to get a bigger salary and bonus - Glad I didn't though as my working conditions right now are fantastic and wouldn't want them to change.

[NSR Mick]

I am currently network manager at a school in London earning over £500 a week take home for scratching my nut's and browsing the net all day.
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[Catalyst]

£4.70 an hour in waitrose stacking alcohol

I'm 16....doesn't get much better than that. It pays for what i need so i'm not complaining even if it is boring, shit holiday and generally bollocks.

Jack
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[izzi81]

Trainee Fingerprint Officer.

Currently on something like £270/week...

How did I get there.... too long a story, but in a nutshell, studied film, looked for jobs for years, found none, change of plan, evening course in forensics, trainee job Takes 3+ years before I stop being a trainee. I'm about 2/3 of the way through...
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[panrider_uk]

Day job is networks/pcs/support etc.

Also have my own Limited Company doing same and selling computer/network equipment and services.

Also do t-shirt/mug/mousemat etc. printing and vinyl for cars etc.

And in my spare time....

Mark
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Current bikes: Honda ST1100 Pan European. Moto Guzzi V85 TT Travel

[Ariel Badger]

Donkey nober for specialist cinema.
£2000 per job.
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[ZRX61]

I do stuff with WWII aircraft, hotrods & bikes. That stuff includes fabrication, welding, wrenching, painting & sometimes woodbutchery.
Pay depends on who's being billed, "mate rate" is about $40/hr & can go up to $250-$300/hr for people who are a pain in the arse bugging me to work on shit I don't want to work on.... $300/hr generally makes me a bit more agreeable. It's not unkown to hit $10K/day on rare occassions

[MaybeGuy]

[alun111]

I get paid around £650 per month (so what, £160 per week) working at fucking morrisons doing the same old shit on the night shift stacking shelves and having a twat of a manager.

Well sick of the place, need to get out!
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[binge]

Oh dear...

I`m a Grade 13 Fitter at Kwik-fit.
All training was done via the company.
Basic pay is around £750 take home (per month)
but with the help of the SE living allowance and bonus. I take anything from £900 to £1100 a month. (Thats after tax)
I paid £240 tax this month.

Going on an advanced Brakes course soon. Should bump me up to around £1300 take home per month.

Not too bad, I want better though.

[chris-red]

I'm a Helpdesk Analyst/Operator, I'm on 21k + overtime.

Not bad for a 20 year old uni dropout.

Overtime can be awesome £29 p/h on bank holidays it was £59 if I worked Xmas day.
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[SM.Morgan]

Student, motorcycle mechanics lvl2.

30quid a week for turning up.

Last job was working in a warehouse getting 6quid an hour.
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[pwntifex]

Ne rabotayu.
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[_Will_]

At the moment am a student, earning £7.30p/h part time but has awesome overtime rates.

Still deciding what to do when i finish my course in june but have the chance to go for a web design job paying £12k a year based on 3 days a week and a supermarket IT technician on the weekends *rubs hands*

Or i carry on for another 2 years scraping by
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[tatters]

I,m a Electrician working for a building services and controls systems company which l,ve been doing for over a year now, currently working as a static engineer at a 6 tower office block complex in the city, work 4 days on 4 days off rotating days/nights (one week days other nights etc) basic pay is £28,000 but l make around £36,000 with shift allowance and the odd bit of overtime.


not bad for a 21y old
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[craigie b]

I started of working as a designer whilst studying computer graphics. Got work doing flyers and posters for the student union (to this day, probably the work I am proudest off because it was cool being involved with the student night-life, used to sit there stoned with my mates...."Look what I did").

Left Uni, worked for a marketing firm doing 3D animations and web design, moved to York, by a combination of luck and hard work managed to get a job working on touch screen casino hardware.

Spent four years in the co, designing 3D real time graphics, adverts, website etc before being asked to work in Asia helping set up an Asian division. Its a good job at the minute, I'm under paid but get my expenses back, along side free travel. Have visited Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Manilla in the past 6 months (in fact been to Singapore 3 times, Vietnam 4 times and I fly in and out of Malaysia on a regular basis. Also get flights home for nothing.

At present I have no real boss over me, so its up to me to keep myself on the straight and narrow, but I am a law onto myself at the moment, which is great. As long as I get the work done then everyone is happy. I have some very long days (going 2 days without sleep is not uncommon when a deadline hits home), but the perks far outweigh the negatives.

[Nb]

Car mot tester, get paid 7.81 an hour which kind sucks but since i dont live to excess its enough. Plus profit share every month depending on how the place has done in the month.
To get to be an mot tester i had to do level 1 2 and 3 in light vehicle mechanics at college and then go on the mot course and that was it.
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[kitty kat]

I am a dry cleaner, just above minimum wage, but pays my bills, hours suit me. After 18 years of being 'just a mum' it is good to be able to hold my head up high & say I work for what I have got.
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