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Anywhere between 0 - 30 hours a week, depending on when we're talking about
It's an average of about £120 a fortnight.
I wish. You could double that figure then (plus some)...
Having watched Gerry on BBC2 just now, I figure that I'm not earning enough because he came up with nothing new for me...
Even with a decent amount of the CIMA course, you'll be lucky to get that much - maybe fully qualified and a couple of years post-qualification experience. I'm doing the CIMA qualification at the moment, and i'm in an office with a couple of other people doing it - one person sat his TOPCIMA in November, and he's still quite a long way off the 40k mark. There was an article in one of the mags about newly qualifieds and how 'record pay' was being achieved as someone was getting 40k, but i think it's very rare.
Can you not get in to another job with your AAT and then ask if you can do CIMA? That's what my company does - although i know a lot of places don't really support you for things like that.
You'd go in at strategic level, wouldn't you?
Even with a decent amount of the CIMA course, you'll be lucky to get that much - maybe fully qualified and a couple of years post-qualification experience. I'm doing the CIMA qualification at the moment, and i'm in an office with a couple of other people doing it - one person sat his TOPCIMA in November, and he's still quite a long way off the 40k mark. There was an article in one of the mags about newly qualifieds and how 'record pay' was being achieved as someone was getting 40k, but i think it's very rare.
Can you not get in to another job with your AAT and then ask if you can do CIMA? That's what my company does - although i know a lot of places don't really support you for things like that.
You'd go in at strategic level, wouldn't you?
Even with a decent amount of the CIMA course, you'll be lucky to get that much - maybe fully qualified and a couple of years post-qualification experience. I'm doing the CIMA qualification at the moment, and i'm in an office with a couple of other people doing it - one person sat his TOPCIMA in November, and he's still quite a long way off the 40k mark. There was an article in one of the mags about newly qualifieds and how 'record pay' was being achieved as someone was getting 40k, but i think it's very rare.
Can you not get in to another job with your AAT and then ask if you can do CIMA? That's what my company does - although i know a lot of places don't really support you for things like that.
You'd go in at strategic level, wouldn't you?
It's alright money for what I do (especially seeing as I'm only educated to Higher/A Level standard), there's not much job security though and it's hardly a career.
I applied for a 26K a year job for Yell.com earlier today, so y'never know.
I'd like to go and learn to be a journalist or work in the media, but it's getting round to doing it, cause I'm used to the money I get from working full-time.
I basically go round the wards and clinics and make sure they have enough drugs, and when they havent-give them more and re-stock the pharmacy. Occasionally dispense.
I really dont like it and ill be 25 before i can progress.
great prospects huh.
Honestly - I don't know exactly what is going to happen over the next few years but at the rate of increase (15-25% per annum), pretty much everybody is going to be priced out of the market.
Frustrating, that's for god damned sure.
Honestly, I don't know what my two younger brothers have in mind - but the only solution I have is to offer them a percentage share in any deal I come across. The UK, in this situation, is coming up to a very confusing/difficult situation.
Oh yes. He ain't going anywhere
I know exactly what your talking about I'm lucky because i'm married so I can get a house with my husband but there is no way my sister could ever afford to buy even a studio flat in London even though she earns over £20K.
House prices have gone completley mental in the area where I live as well with the price of a 3 bedroom house going up 100K since September on my street which is just mental.
40K is my 'I can dream' figure. 30K for what I want to do would be nice, and I wont get til I'm about 30. I have no idea what the levels are at CIMA any more, there forever changing the syallbus and exemptions etc. As far I remember I get the whole of the first stage exempted. I know how much my current job want me to stay, but I really have no chance of a decent salary/prospects if I stay there. I'll find something but study places to non-grads are pretty hard to get. Some companies still dont recognise AAT that well for whatever reason, even though its a very work based qualification (its a NVQ ffs, it has to be vocational, the emphasis is on work-based achievements) :rolleyes:
Me too....are you NICs by any chance?
True but a company car is pointless, if like me, you cant drive and have to desire too. Plus you have to pay tax on most of the perks anyway.
I have seen salaries like that advertised by agencies etc for AAT people who have gone onto CIMA. I bet there are a million and one applicants though
When i started work it was £10k for me. For my Dad it was £1k.
Inflation eh? :yippe:
People will always be ill so there'll always be a need for pharmacies therefore job for life :thumb:
Have you thought about qualifications to become a pharmacist ? A mate does locum work for £25 an hour !
Personally, living in London, I don't see how people do it on less than £25k (this is renting of course as there is no way you could buy on that figure unless you fell upon some council house sale thing). There would be too much scrimping and saving which I don't like doing.
A 'comfortable' wage in London would be in excess of £50k (and even then you will struggle to buy anything). I found that to be my comfort amount and there is your reason I won't go permie. I would be on £45-50k for what I am doing, whereas I am on a lot more as a contractor.
Rich? Well, rich is the same whatever you're living. I'd say rich is somebody who earns £150k/year and upwards. In fact, thinking about it, I would say that they'd have to be earning a lot more than that for me to really consider them rich.
Curious to see what other people think about this one as I think my ideas have been changed on this over the last few years.
Anyway, I'm applying for something now which, if I get it, will be just over £20k a year starting salary. Not bad for a 21 year old!
Never mind.