You pay £3K a month in tax?
Holy shit. I think your bottom line (cough) must still be pretty impressive.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:10, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

My thoughts exactly!
And I grumbled at paying 1k a month in tax.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:11, Reply)

*snivels*
I grumble about earning 1k a month AFTER tax.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:20, Reply)

It's annoying to know I could earn 15-20k more just by moving to London
Albeit I'd also have to sacrifice a lot more free time, pay more in rent, and likely have to cut my hair and shed piercings :/
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:22, Reply)

You're not moving here.

( thealternativefact, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:23, Reply)

Too right I'm not
My balls are safer here.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)

Yes. SafER.

( thealternativefact, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)

I'm just going to leave them at home whenever I attend bashes in the future

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)

What will Vee grab?

( thealternativefact, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:29, Reply)

One reason I'm leaving them at home

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)

And remember you'd get arse-raped for a tenner for a frigging salad every sodding lunchtime.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)

Aye
Stratford's not far off London prices though, so that wouldn't be a huge step up for me.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)

this is very true
*sad faces*
bought all my family's presents and sent them off and my wallet is in paaaaaaaaaaaain.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:12, Reply)

Maybe one day you'll be ready to do that.
If you're happy enough now then why worry.
( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)

Precisement, Madamoiselle

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:26, Reply)

I'd likely earn another 5k if I moved to London
that includes the weighting. Science sucks balls, it really does.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)

It's the good thing about my industry being rather small

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)

*huffs*
Oh well, I doubt I'd want -or be able- to do your job anyway.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Oh strikethrough, strikethrough...
*resists*
( thealternativefact, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Micropenislolz

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:32, Reply)

I'm quite impressed it's even 5K
My salary goes up by £2300 in London. Fucking matched salary scales. Mind you, I can't complain, I'm not at all badly paid except when I remember the salary I left in industry :( :(
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:29, Reply)

It's around that
a lot of the jobs at Imperial/UCL are fairly well paid even before the weighting. Around £20k is average for a technician now, but I'm a ways off that sadly.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

ah, right
I thought all the academic scales were matched? I got the same salary when I moved from UCL to here because they couldn't pay a lecturer any more and they wouldn't give me SL straightaway. Bah.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)

I think support staff are different to academic
Certain areas it's 17-21, but in places like Cambridge and London it's 20-24. Either way, it's always between 17-24.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)

ah, right so.
I'll hardly say "lucky you" given how shite support salaries in academia are.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:43, Reply)

Put it this way
If I'd gone in to the graduate scheme at McDonalds, by now I'd probably be earning twice as much. Sad, isn't it?
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:46, Reply)

yeah. It really is.
Did you see the fucking GQ "rock stars of science" thing? how can a society be so fucked up? Why do we want our scientists to be compared favorably to rock stars? for fucks sake, in any civilised society it should be the other way round.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Remember of course that GQ has a target audience of
"Hurr, tits!"-grade australopithecines.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:16, Reply)

It's a US TV campaign I think :(
not just the magazine.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)

it's all relative
sometimes i love my job, love my clients, love my colleagues, think i am lucky to earn such a silly amount of money for such a great job.

then i have whole weeks of working 7am-2am, sweating over court deadlines and expert reports and witness evidence whilst juggling it with the more standard 8am-8pm bread and butter work and billing and business development and senior solicitor duties... during those weeks, they could pay me three times what they do, it would still not be a third enough!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

Amen
I don't think anyone here seriously believes you don't deserve your pay, you work ridiculous hours for it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:36, Reply)

i do enjoy whinging about it though!!!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:48, Reply)

If only they paid all of us that work that hard that much money....
That's not a complaint, mind, personal choice innit. fair play.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:41, Reply)

oh aye, absolutely
that's why so many people apply to be lawyers every single year, of course they aren't doing it for love of the law!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:47, Reply)