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"You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year" When actually I am a co-habiting (good as married tbh) man who is 31 and makes £120,000

"You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year" When actually I am a co-habiting (good as married tbh) man who is 31 and makes £120,000/year. So not the greatest guess hah.

brad0 11y ago
Hey I'm actually moving from the US to the UK and finding the salaries are much smaller. Do you work in tech? How did you get that salary?
- kozukumi 11y ago
  I am a C++ programmer (mostly C++ anyway, I also use C and Java albeit not much which I always say I am a C++ programmer as 90% of what I do is C++). My salary is quite high for a C++ programmer though but that is because I also have responsibility for a lot of things that would normally fall into the technical project or programme manager role. I help with pre-sales, technical support, architecture design and deployment, operational performance tuning, etc. Also I live in West London where salaries are generally a bit higher anyway. I mostly work from home with a trip to the office in Vauxhall every two weeks during normal operations. The office is only a 30-40 minute train ride for me though and when we have a lot going on I will be in the office a couple of times a week if needed. My previous experience and specialisation also help me command a higher salary, I have worked for a few large and high profile companies which does give me an edge as such. Where are you moving to in the UK? What will you be doing?
  - brad0 11y ago
    Looking right now at work in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sounds like I'll need to make a move to London if I really want to earn the big salary. I work primarily in native mobile. I'm working for Amazon right now and I've worked for banks, government as well.
    - kozukumi 11y ago
      Yeah you won't get such high salaries up in Scotland. Outside of London I know Bristol pays well also. I think Manchester has some good things going for it also but never worked there myself. What exactly do you mean by native mobile? To me that could mean mobile device firmware or Android NDK type thing.
      - brad0 11y ago
        By native mobile I mean writing Java/objc using the mobile SDKs versus something like Cordova or phonegap. Though I have written C++ for The Sims 3 on iOS.

"You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year" When actually I am a co-habiting (good as married tbh) man who is 31 and makes £120,000/year. So not the greatest guess hah.

brad0 11y ago

Hey I'm actually moving from the US to the UK and finding the salaries are much smaller. Do you work in tech? How did you get that salary?

kozukumi 11y ago
I am a C++ programmer (mostly C++ anyway, I also use C and Java albeit not much which I always say I am a C++ programmer as 90% of what I do is C++). My salary is quite high for a C++ programmer though but that is because I also have responsibility for a lot of things that would normally fall into the technical project or programme manager role. I help with pre-sales, technical support, architecture design and deployment, operational performance tuning, etc. Also I live in West London where salaries are generally a bit higher anyway. I mostly work from home with a trip to the office in Vauxhall every two weeks during normal operations. The office is only a 30-40 minute train ride for me though and when we have a lot going on I will be in the office a couple of times a week if needed. My previous experience and specialisation also help me command a higher salary, I have worked for a few large and high profile companies which does give me an edge as such. Where are you moving to in the UK? What will you be doing?
- brad0 11y ago
  Looking right now at work in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sounds like I'll need to make a move to London if I really want to earn the big salary. I work primarily in native mobile. I'm working for Amazon right now and I've worked for banks, government as well.
  - kozukumi 11y ago
    Yeah you won't get such high salaries up in Scotland. Outside of London I know Bristol pays well also. I think Manchester has some good things going for it also but never worked there myself. What exactly do you mean by native mobile? To me that could mean mobile device firmware or Android NDK type thing.
    - brad0 11y ago
      By native mobile I mean writing Java/objc using the mobile SDKs versus something like Cordova or phonegap. Though I have written C++ for The Sims 3 on iOS.