[kevin6767]

I already have just by working 6 months last year. Of course my parents are cleaners so when you are dirt poor it isn't difficult to beat :P I would hope to earn a lot more than they do and probably will as the bar is set so low. However that said my hopeful career pays ok but it doesn't pay large volumes of cash. I obviously like everyone else want to be able to live well but money isn't my driving force like most of the TSRian "I want to be an investment banker and make a billion in an afternoon" mob.

[JordanS94]

I live with my mother is a housewife and my dad is on around 26k a year so I might I dunno.

[ilovehobnobs]

Are people really this shallow? o.O

[Sophie1805]

(Original post by Frodo Baggins)
My dad earns about 70K and my mum is a housewife. My mum was one of the senior managers at MARS (chocolate etc) and could have earned so much. I hope to be an investment banker and so i should earn more.

My Dad is a senior manager at MARS High-five.

[Jake22]

I was earning more than my mum by the time I was 19.

As other people have mentioned though - this doesn't necessarily mean much since she was able to get a mortgage for £50,000 and buy a house in the late nineties which in the last ten years probably tripled in value.

[JayReg]

My dad's ridiculously clever (top first at Cambridge -.-) and although he never chased money and stayed in academia. His dabbling in companies as a consultant puts me way off him tbh. So no I don't expect to, even if I actively chase it I would be fortunate to even reach his level.

[Frodo Baggins]

(Original post by Sophie1805)
My Dad is a senior manager at MARS High-five.

No way!?! That's so cool! What are the chances!

[21stcenturyphantom]

Yes, I will. Both my parents are working class, my mother has never been trained or qualified in any profession. No one in my family has gone to university like I will be doing. I see my working class background as a constant reminder that if I want my life to be better, and possibly the life of any children I have to be better, then I have to work hard at what I decide to do and become successful. Success does not imply that I just want to accumulate wealth, because I don't. As another posted said, I would accept a lesser paid job doing something that I enjoyed rather than earn more for a job that I hated or found unbearably stressful and destroyed my personal life.

[Minotauro]

veering off a tangent, it drives me insane that people in my college think when they finish uni they will immediately land 40k/50k jobs , I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does, probably because they scoff at the salary prospects of my desired job.

Back to the point, I was practically raised my brother, so I'm going to refer to his salary, he just graduated from med school last year, so right now he's on 25k to 30k (ish), I feel like I can hit that salary one day (fingers crossed), but whereas he can expect his salary to exponentially increase, I don't think the salary of a researcher can get too much higher than that, but I don't know.

[Muffinz]

My career goal at the minute is to earn more than my mother. Hopefully this shouldn't be too hard because she's a nurse...

[cgraham15]

My parents are quite well off, so in reality I probably won't earn more until I'm old
But yeah, I want to earn wayyyyyy more. Bring in the money ££££££££

[emilybradstreet]

If I do, I will bloody do all I can to help support them! I know that they would do the same for me.

In short, probably yes but I don't think the question is the right one to ask?

[madders94]

If I don't I'd be very concerned - we've been living on benefits for as long as I can remember and I'm determined that, unless we have the same circumstances as my parents, I'll never have to live like that.

[RJ555]

No for a number of reasons: 1. I don't have the same level of ambition, 2. My career aims aren't as financially based, 3. The economy being what it is I think salaries are a lot more conservative now (companies playing it safe with hiring)

[zxh800]

Yes, definitely because sadly income wise they're not a very hard act to follow...

[StartSomething]

My Mum earns about £15,000, maybe less. So yes, I except to earn more than my Mum.
My Dad earns around £30,000. I know I won't earn more than him straight away after uni, but some day I hope to.
I love how I now know how much my parents earn after years of filling out these long student loan forms.

[senz72]

My parents earn a total of £16000 combined, now you give me the answer to the question!

[ehc]

I don't expect to. They once had enough money to go mincing round the globe as they pleased with s****y architect friends, which slowly dwindled as my brother and I came into the equation.
I don't have any set career path or plans so who knows. Generally speaking what I would like to be vaguely involved in career-wise isn't notorious for being able to get a well paying job. But I'd rather get by with a job I love than be rich with a job I don't.

What! It bleeped out 'sw.anky' That's one of my favourite adjectives.

[starxriddled]

The education system failed my mum, she has one 'O-level' in needle-work...
She's now a full-time carer for my disabled father.

So yes, after hopefully completing a University education, I will earn more than my parents. But this is because I have had the opportunities that they did not.

[jellybean_]

My dad left school at 15 or 16 and has done various jobs including postman,carpet fitter,driving instructor and plasterer. He is now a warehouse operator (drives forklift trucks at a place that distributes books). Not sure of his exact salary,but I know it's not much at all. The thing that keeps him going is the fact that his Royal Mail pension is pretty good

My mum has decent qualifications (O-Levels and got some other various qualifications via Open University) and is now a Nurse. Again, I don't know her exact salary. However looking at the NHS website and guessing which band she falls into, I'd say it's about £30,000.

However I'm going to be ambitious and say I want to earn more than this..not sure what the reality will be though