What's your job & salary

I weave dufflecoats of many sizes and colours using a top secret fibre. I haven't sold any yet but they're going to be the next big thing.

Green farmer wrote: »

Even more depressing, I'm sitting on a panel with about 1,000 people ahead of me , awaiting the opportunity to get a start as a clerical officer.

Ah don't be too depressed, if you work hard go for opportunities etc you can rise up the ranks pretty quickly.
I started as a CO and am now an AP.

Self employed plasterer
Salary can vary and this year been difficult but lot worse off than me as I’m at stage where kids are grown up and mortgage paid . I’ll say on average year 80k

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

Unbelievable the info people post in here. If you had any sense you would make it up who knows who's reading this. Crazy

I don't follow? Who would you be afraid of seeing this and why?

NewMan1982 wrote: »

Yes. It’s how the company structures it’s pay. I guess if profits drop they are not on the hook for big basic salaries

Fair point. That's sweet if it comes in!

I am an outsourced catering staff member in a pharmaceutical factory.

It's a sh1t job and I hate every minute of it!

Min wage.

Catering Assistant/Acting manager position.

(I am working on changing my career though and starting fresh!!)

Self employed hairdresser.

Just had the best 12 months ever!

*cough*....I mean, struggling to pay bills and still on PUP.

Software Engineer with a huge American software company - 85k

I do contracting in the evenings, which generally amounts to 1400 per month. I'm very fortunate, though I work 12 hour days as norm.

shadyslimshady wrote: »

Could knock off maybe 50 a month for tyres and servicing.
Tolls and parking i expense.

Is your accountant a bit of a fool or something? He could lease you a decent brand new motor for substantially less than that?



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Exceltrup wrote: »

Software Engineer with a huge American software company - 85k

I do contracting in the evenings, which generally amounts to 1400 per month. I'm very fortunate, though I work 12 hour days as norm.

Wow I don't know how you manage to do both - fair play to you. My previous job was in an American software company, great salary but always dragging me back online in the evening due to time zones. Current is another American company, but it's a slog and I'm wiped out in the evenings. Maybe I'm just too old for all this anymore? Perhaps I should start looking for something part time and ditch the full time altogether - you've sowed a seed in my mind!!

I'm an artist, so my income is difficult to calculate.

In the plus column we have: the dole - 10,660/ yr

In the minus column we have some overheads involved with the profession, not including studio space as I use the kitchen table.
Oil paint/primer: 800.00 per year
Solvents/oil: 170.00 per year
Canvas: (use to be 500 per year, now I fish wood out of skips to cut costs)
Brushes: (have at least 100 in my collection that probably cost around 1.5k in total but sometimes need replacements) 200 per year
Miscellaneous (paper towels, brush soap, rubber gloves, palettes, random tools): 200 per year.

That's a minimum just for making the work.

For applying to exhibitions which I send out about 1 application every 2 weeks they charge usually around 10 euro per piece (yes the curators charge applying artists a 10er to open up a jpg and glance at it for 30 seconds). This cost has gone down because of covid cancelling everything but we'll say about 260.00 per year before that.

Then, if your piece is accepted you pay to deliver it yourself by courier, in a very good year you might get into 5 exhibitions, most years 2 on average. These cost vary with size of work, for someone making small paintings we can say around 250 euros per year shipping.

You also get to pay for any travel costs and accommodation if you want to travel to the opening to see the exhibition you are in and 'network'. That can cost about min 150-300 per trip if it is just within Ireland. Say around 600.00 per year conservative estimate.

It's around 3k or so, only about a third of your income, that leaves you with about 7k a year to live on if you don't sell anything, which you probably won't, especially the last year.

That's about 130 per week.

It's not bad, you can probably houseshare in Leitrim on that. If you burn all your rubbish, never use the tumble dryer and find out the neighbors wifi code you might just make it.

The good news is that you can still get a job, albeit a minimum wage entry level job, in retail or hospitality, with that fine art degree. But you'll actually have better success finding work in those fields if you leave the qualification off your CV. The employers in those industries tend to frown on creative types. You might be nonconformist, unpredictable, away with the fairies or think you're too good for the job. You could take a notion and dye your hair a funny colour, who knows?

So you've taken the fine art degree you worked so hard for off the CV, so what? You still have it somewhere. You're still an artist. You can paint in your spare time.

Except those retail and service jobs are a lot more draining than you thought. You're on your feet all day. You're very tired when you come home and you need to make dinner and get your uniform ready for the next day. You think about the customer interactions that went badly that day and sink into the couch to watch TV, and try to avoid threads on boards about salaries because you can't stand hearing 'learn to cooooode' from another techbro.

I dunno if I answered the question but I think I'm getting off track.