I quite fancy, NRN, but at some point in the medium term future, maybe sometime in 2025 or 2026, a nice little office based research job, maybe in Lodon or if not some other major city: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, some other university town, I don't really mind.
It would have to be a nice, worthwhile job with nice people, so this is probably going to remain hypothetical since those type of jobs are gold dust and usually get gifted to the rich kids by the older rich kids who can afford to work in nice jobs because daddy earns £200K a year in the city trading poor people's children for plutonium on behalf of rogue states, or whatever.
Anyway, apparently the rise of the super-commuter is now a thing, with more people commuting from around where I live on the welsh borders to London for 2-3 days in the office, so 2 nights away on average.
I'm estimating £600 a month for part-time rental and train fair, sounds about right, one can get quite close to central and be able to park, 20-30 minutes out by train.
And working on a nice, decent quality of life budget, as below...
I'd have to earn the following:
Assuming post-mortgage or that my passive income can pay that off (not unrealistic) then....
- Full time = £22K.
- 4 days a week = £27K FTE
- 3 days a week = £36K FTE.
Assuming a maximum of three days in the office with all of these, then I could potentially even do an advanced apprenticeship on the full time salary, that is a spectacularly LOW amount.
And with my level of qualifications and experience the later FTE of £36K is totally reasonable, although I'm not sure I'd fancy the level of responsibility that's likely to go with that!
Another possibility is to aim for three-four days on a lower salary and then actually 'WORK' the fourth day at something else, there's always tuition - £30 an hour, 4 hours = £120 a day = another £6K a year which clearly makes up the difference!
(And the other half the day for travelling back from, or to London, it works!)
It's doable!
When...?
I dunno, I'm quite happy RN doing my interviewing and volunteering, I'm thinking maybe once I'm actually fully trained up and give CA at least a good month after, then I start looking around lightly.
I'm in no rush!
I also need to keep an eye on how the blog income holds up, that has to maintain to pay off the mortgage with the figures I'm working with here.
And it's A LOT cheaper for now to just stay put where I am and not pay an extra £600 a month just to work.
Needless to say it would have to be a job I REALLY liked to do this!
NB the other motivation is that I quite like the idea of spending some more time in the SE, it's my roots, after all!