fwiw, I earn £27,000 as a C#/Java developer in central London and I know I am extremely poor at salary negotiation so I expect I am grossly underpaid.
I mean this in a nice way, but what you lack in salary negotiation skills you could make up in tolerating a job hunt and switching. In London, if you're intermediate or better with those skills, you could probably find positions with a 50% higher publicly stated salary?
Not sure about the horse thing though. You can get stabled livery and pay all the various horse related expenses on about £5K a year. My car costs me more.
I mean this in a nice way, but what you lack in salary negotiation skills you could make up in tolerating a job hunt and switching. In London, if you're intermediate or better with those skills, you could probably find positions with a 50% higher publicly stated salary?
Not sure about the horse thing though. You can get stabled livery and pay all the various horse related expenses on about £5K a year. My car costs me more.