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I've had to live off every single penny of my own all throughout uni. I've had a £4k loan and £1k grant (and yes, I do realise there are people in worse situations) but with over £3.5k of my loan going on accomodation, I'm really not left with much because of paying room insurance, £300 on Law books, etc.
I have to work 2/3 shifts a week at work just to get by (but tbh, this probably pays for my social life) and its just a little frustrating. I could really do with NOT working this term.
I'd like to think that its all worth it when I graduate. It probably won't be though. Theres that many graduates out there, I doubt having a 2:2 in Law from bloody UCLAN will be of any use.
I know how to do that, it's oddly satisfying.
I earn more than all of you, in fact, I own all of you. I get paid £150,000,000 a day.
ok. £150 a week, when I work in the holidays. But I get free lunch and access to all the company vehicles.
ETA: I can actually do the maths, that's true
ETA and we get free doughnuts at work, when the manager isn't looking
We get free ALCOHOL after a hard shift. On my last shift though, I ended up drinking 6 pints of cideeerrr (it was a short day shift sorting the place out. boss said we could have a few pints each). It was rather funny
Are you hiring
and i get £9.02 an hour on sundays.
Sounds about right. An NQT wage is £19,621 and then goes up each year you are in teaching. But I'm doing my NQT through a supply agency so I get paid by the day.
I found them to be an shit employer.
I earn good money being self employed, but I'd far rather be employed with a company car/van, paid holiday, pension, health care etc and not earn so much. It's just less of a headache.
No HR experience at all - a lot of HR Admin jobs (particularly in the big cities) require a HR degree, but I got the interview for the job via my then IT tutor when I was doing a typing course to improve my CV and she was impressed enough to give me the chance. Have been there since Feb 2006.
The step above me is HR Officer and the ones I work with earn £28k (full time equivalent). HR Managers typically earn over £40k, going up to £100k+ for HR Directors.
Don't know what I want to do in the future. Never really considered HR before - applied for the job because it was administration - but now that I'm here I can't imagine changing! Will stay as an Administrator for the next few years I think and see where it goes.. Most people (over 150) who work for the company I work for have been there for twenty years plus and they do say "once you get in, you can't get out" so I may be here for a while yet!
Or the best one, Administration Specialist. I saw a job ad saying that the other day and it was effectively an office junior. Totally random.
I'm just hoping though that having a law degree will get me something!
I think I should have chosen a different career route...
The holidays are ace - having said that, who would put up with this job without such great holidays?
There are also plenty of graduate jobs where the specific subject isn't that important- the level of study and academic level showing your ability to learn, analyse, do reports, give presentations, work under pressure etc are much more important.
I should have stayed with Accenture :grump:
Really? I know that the industry starting salary for newly qualified accountants has gone up, but i didn't think it was that much yet (unfortunately!).
My job title is 'graduate trainee management accountant' and i'm earning a good wage for where i live, but probably around 3k less than industry standard. However, i've got a good trainee package with lots of support and study leave for my exams and a good pension, so i'm not complaining
I have a degree in accountancy and am partly professionally accredited.
from what i remember my ex said he gets in at about 6 (he goes to the gym after school), has his tea and does work from around 7-9 (though he probably chats on msn and other stuff too) and then goes to bed! his weekends..not sure but i know he goes to football, gets drunk and must see his girlfriend somewhere in between that and he'll probably squeeze a few hours of work in too.
I'm on £157 per day, five days per week and I also get paid for 52 weeks of the year. Yes, that's about £41k p.a..
NB I also get another 2% on top for being on-call 6 times per year for a week at a time.
My pay as a fully quailifed AAT (hopefully a member soon) with three and a half years practical experience is utterly shit. The 40K figure was for when I have a decent amount of the CIMA course done. I need a job with a good trainee package though, but their hard to get and a lot of places only want graduates. :grump: