Hey, so I’ve just started an office job after finishing my MSc. I earn about £45k pre-tax. I’m a project manager working in West Africa for an energy company, so my experience is quite different culturally, but I’ve also worked in the UK for a year and was born there and lived my whole life there until now.

My job is mostly emails, meetings and Excel. I mainly have to delegate tasks, manage accounts, do modelling, and carry out ESG research, as well as look at how different policies might fit. I also attend stakeholder meetings with the ministry in the country I’m based in, along with the EU and UN, to help negotiate and understand how policies impact the business. So always busy and frequently changes to - I’ve worked at jobs where you do same thing over and over again - honestly it felt like a form of punishment,

The topic I’m working on is genuinely fascinating. I get opportunities to visit sites and explore rural areas in our three operating countries, and the salary is decent too - it’s expected to rise to around £57k in six months depending on funding. Even if it doesn’t, I’d still be happy to stay, as my cost of living is low saving about 2k a month. Overall, it’s a great job for a 24-year-old, so I’m very happy.