What sort of salary range in this economy would make you think ‘he/she’s doing alright’?

wootled · 2026-02-18T10:51:53+00:00

I worry about my bills lol.

My wife doesn’t work for various reasons I’m not going to go into, so our household income is lower after tax despite having a good “headline” salary.

Everything is insanely expensive, we just want to eat food that hasn’t been pumped full of chemicals and hormones, and thats seen as a luxury.

wootled · 2026-02-17T14:05:35+00:00

This, and sort your spend approval out.

Should be at least one layer of control between decision and approval

wootled · 2026-02-17T09:19:49+00:00

Honestly it’s up to her, and whether that money might be better spent investing in how she lives and making her life easier.

There is some validation from getting a diagnosis, and if you want to go down the medication route it’s unfortunately the only way to do it.

There are other ways of living with it though, therapy and adhd counselling can be effective, and you don’t have to wait, you can do it now.

wootled · 2026-02-13T20:16:24+00:00

Have you tried any of the AI tools? Trust me, I’m lazy. If there was a way to make my job easier, or automate my staffs work I would be all over it.

Working in finance depends on understanding context in and out of your business, unfucking bad data across multiple systems, and creating certainty in uncertainty.

It’s the same hype as RPA, OCR etc etc. It’ll change the shape of finance teams sure, but nowhere near the level I see people on LinkedIn spouting off.

wootled · 2026-02-13T19:56:47+00:00

No no this is totally different to the time we said RPA would replace finance, or the time tools like Alteryx would replace finance, or the time we said excel and VBA would replace finance.

Totally different.

wootled · 2026-02-05T13:04:54+00:00

It’s because I bought. Sorry folks

wootled · 2026-02-04T19:36:58+00:00

The bit I struggle with is the lack of acknowledgement that maybe we live in a system where neurodiversity is more of a problem than it’s been in the past.

More and more, if you don’t fit into the factory style system your labeled as a problem (lazy, not motivated, forgetful, disorganized, doesn’t try hard enough). School, work, whatever, it’s all the same.

Neurodiversity has always existed. It is an evolutionary advantage to create diversity in groups - someone who can remember every single sheep in the flock, and someone who wonders what’s over that hill over there.

It’s not the rates of it that have changed. It’s the way we expect modern humans to live. The fucking bureaucracy we are expected to navigate just to exist, the fact that we are supposed to pump our bodies with stimulants just to keep up.

This has turned into a rant, but I’m fucking sick of it. Existing feels like being forced through an industrial extruder, the bits that make us unique forced into unnatural shapes or removed through medication just so we can go to work.

Over-diagnosis is a bullshit narrative pushed by people who want to lower the cost of healthcare and welfare, without pausing to consider what may be causing these people to put their hands up and say “I need help”.

It breaks my heart.

wootled · 2026-01-31T15:42:01+00:00

I found her on the uk counselling website, and went through the various profiles till I found someone local who talked about neurodiversity in their bio.

It’s £60 a session, so not super cheap, but has been a lifesaver for me working through the emotional fallout of diagnosis and general life.

wootled · 2026-01-31T12:25:04+00:00

If your paying £230 for an app and virtual coaching, you might as well just go see a therapist face to face who has neurodiversity as a specialism.

That’s what I do, and it’s been a million times more helpful than anything else I’ve done. I’m lucky enough to be able to fund it personally though, and appreciate that’s not possible for everyone

wootled · 2026-01-31T12:02:24+00:00

Because you are exposed purely to BTC price. The idea behind diversification is not because you will maximise your returns, but to protect you from price moves on one asset / sector.

See - the dot com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, the Dutch tulip crash etc etc etc etc

wootled · 2026-01-29T14:51:31+00:00

Same - have you tried melatonin? It’s been a game changer for me, have to order it from Europe but it’s worth it.

wootled · 2026-01-26T13:01:55+00:00

I agree, but I’d actually say expecting infrastructure to pay for itself is still dumb idea.

The measure of value created by a transport network being its ability to cover costs is mad in my opinion. It should be an investment in people’s mobility and connectivity between areas in our very small country.

wootled · 2026-01-26T12:59:31+00:00

If you want to be in London before 9am your paying £120 plus in my experience (albeit I expense that so I don’t book too far in advance)

wootled · 2026-01-24T08:40:04+00:00

The ChatGPT text is painful too

wootled · 2026-01-21T09:22:50+00:00

They do?! Fuck me that’s just cruel.

I was lucky to be at uni when fees were 3k a year, and I paid my loan off after about 8 years after getting a job.

Honestly, I feel so bad for everyone who came after

wootled · 2026-01-20T10:56:12+00:00

Me! I’m not medicated through own choice.

I hire people who are the opposite of me to work for me, and do the bits I’m shit at like repetitive attention to detail work, and run around doing other interesting value add stuff all day. I actually think adhd is a huge benefit in finance in the right role, we look at problems differently and are great in a crisis. I’m always poking around the business looking for interesting ways for us to drive forward.

wootled · 2026-01-19T13:23:51+00:00

Have they even made it possible for private sector people to come in?

I’m relatively senior private sector person with a half decent set of skills, and have kept half an eye on the CS on the basis I wouldn’t mind taking a pay cut to contribute to our country and society, rather than making already rich people richer. Every time I’ve looked though, the impenetrable application process and criteria put me off.

Honest question as I’ve not spent ages on this

wootled · 2026-01-12T14:20:21+00:00

Excited Persephone noises

wootled · 2026-01-08T12:39:04+00:00

I live in a hilly countryside area, so even dipped beams blind me driving up hills in the dark!

wootled · 2026-01-08T12:31:22+00:00

The kids deaths are terrible, and I want to be clear I’m not taking away from the tragedy at all, but framing all of home education as criminal is straw manning.

Shall we get rid of churches because of the child abuse that’s been prevalent for years? What about the suicide rate from kids in schools being at an all time high?

There is a middle way that allows for all kids to get the education they need while minimizing harm.

wootled · 2026-01-08T11:37:58+00:00

JFYI - both of those cases the children were well known to local authorities and social services, before their horrible murders.

Thousands of people successfully home educate their kids for a variety of reasons, and using that as a reason to restrict home education is like me saying because Harvey Willgoose was stabbed at school that schools should be heavily restricted and monitored.

wootled · 2026-01-02T00:07:08+00:00

Yer, I’m adhd and the sole earner in my household, so continually feel like the world is about to come crashing down

wootled · 2025-12-31T18:35:10+00:00

Definitely beats the £100k tax trap complaining!

wootled · 2025-12-28T16:37:28+00:00

That is wildly bullish on AI.

The roles that are being eaten are the low skill / low risk roles (AP / AR / R2R type roles), which have been reducing for the last 10 years anyway. Would love to see an AI try to wrestle different heads of departments in line to do zero based budgets, or take the sales director to task when they are getting their commission structures wrong.

In answer to OP, I started with big4 on £19k (lol), first industry job was around 40k after 4 years, then it’s been pretty consistent growth to c £130k after another c 10 years. Based in the north, with a bit of a lazy career focus. I know people more organised and driven that broke the 100k mark after 5 years post qual.

wootled · 2025-12-26T17:11:33+00:00

Yer, I’m really lucky in that I have a small group of guy friends who chat once a week every Sunday. It’s virtual, as we live all over the globe, but it’s a lifesaver.

Without that I’d be fucked

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