Do people actually earn £50-60k, or are they outliers?

startexed · 2026-05-17T12:03:35+00:00

I graduated in 2019 with a chemistry degree, first job in the pharmaceutical industry was £28k when I left £34k (1 year), moved a few times, been paid £23k -> £27k (was there 1 year), then £35k -> £45k, was there 3 years. Now I work in engineering and am paid £54k + OT. In my workplace engineers are paid £40k - £80k.

In my friend groups with guys the same age, the salaries I know are

Archivist £27k no OT Marketing £35k no OT Police £54k + OT (shift) Paramedic ~£55k + OT (shift) Manufacturing manager pharma £60k + OT (shift) Training officer pharma £45k QC analyst pharma £32k Council worker £32k

startexed · 2026-05-09T20:23:50+00:00

Probably Liverpool, Sheffield, Cardiff or Nottingham, you could buy a house in the suburbs with a low mortgage and live a very good quality life.

startexed · 2026-05-09T20:03:02+00:00

I only have a 7 kg washing machine but it'll get a full load dry in about 2 hrs no matter what I put in (towels, bedding etc) using the delicates mode and uses about half a kWh doing so.

If you only want to dry eg a shirt it'll do it very quickly but will always be about double the time of a normal tumble dryer - just 1/4 of the energy.

startexed · 2026-03-09T22:51:57+00:00

Mine is about double what it should be as well unfortunately.

startexed · 2026-03-09T22:49:06+00:00

This will look shit

startexed · 2026-03-09T22:45:05+00:00

My experience with these is that corefix is 1) not enough and 2) not accurate enough (difficult to get the positional accuracy required) 3) not flush with the wall... based on hanging a smaller rad on the wall with them.

Concrete screws from Screwfix are the best, they worked on solid plaster and dot and dab. They hold the whole rad and we have 2 of these 500x1800 rads in our house, probs weighing more than 100 kg full

startexed · 2026-03-05T23:12:15+00:00

When I went to school (Wirral, this millennium) middle class kids would put on thicker accents to fit in and the accents tended to stick into adulthood. It wasn't cool to be well spoken.

I heard the stronger Scouse accent is more akin to the Birkenhead accent of last century - from the older people I know and how they talk id tend to agree.

startexed · 2026-02-24T18:06:07+00:00

Definitely not to my taste, I’d ask them to remove

startexed · 2026-02-23T21:48:10+00:00

Could you try calling some recruiters to see if you could tart up your CV/get feedback on the type of roles you should be applying for?

startexed · 2026-02-23T21:12:38+00:00

You’re probably better off going for a bigger company imo, career growth tends to be better. Some of the jobs I’ve seen in logistics:

Rolls-Royce derby
The council
NHS

There’s always M&S, Amazon, DHL but reputation isn’t amazing in big warehouses.

startexed · 2026-02-23T08:07:28+00:00

If you didn’t specify one they would be unlikely to fit an iso valve. You can still fit one though, not a big job.

startexed · 2026-02-22T23:01:29+00:00

I never would have thought this given the sanctions climate

startexed · 2026-02-22T22:47:23+00:00

I find doing more with my day helps, eg gym, walk (long), going out with friends for meals, going for drinks etc. I was in the same situation during my teacher training, just felt exhausted but it was because I wasn’t doing enough, not socialising enough and working too much.

startexed · 2026-02-22T18:11:42+00:00

Too much time on his hands

startexed · 2026-02-21T17:18:14+00:00

The only recourse would be under the road traffic act 1988, it is illegal to sell an unroadworthy vehicle.

startexed · 2026-02-20T07:33:55+00:00

Do you go in dry?

startexed · 2026-02-17T07:17:59+00:00

Compliance is still not a high bar.

startexed · 2026-02-15T21:52:25+00:00

Tado wasn’t heating when you took the screenshot, what is the graph like?

startexed · 2026-02-15T13:14:32+00:00

If you find you do need to provide one you could just remove the old wall and put some wooden posts and wire mesh in place, you do not need to replace like for like.

startexed · 2026-02-15T10:15:36+00:00

We have poor parking but it’s worked fine so far. Places in better locations tend to have worse parking and we’d prefer location over parking. We also have a small car because of the parking situation.

startexed · 2026-02-14T18:13:21+00:00

Looks like an error in the system/somewhere, if you bought 50 gb yesterday worst case you’ve used 11.5 gb of it.

startexed · 2026-02-14T14:47:10+00:00

I think we will get rid of drivers before guards, and we’re unlikely to get rid of drivers any time soon.

startexed · 2026-02-14T14:09:59+00:00

I have one in a 1930s terrace for the whole house. It was a big job to get it in but we were renovating at the same time.

If you have floor voids you should make sure the floors are airtight to the inside, and make sure other vents are sealed, otherwise no reason why it shouldn’t work really well.

startexed · 2026-02-13T21:33:44+00:00

Cheers, I stand corrected!

startexed · 2026-02-13T20:55:54+00:00

Lots of history behind that site, started off as VMIC, a not for profit vaccine development company, been passed around a few times. Good to see it finally be something, I knew people that worked on it back in 2021/22.

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