EXCLUSIVE I used to work in Boots in Nottingham - now I earn £200,000 a year selling property in Dubai By Claudia Joseph Published: 21:15 EDT, 2 July 2024 | Updated: 01:55 EDT, 3 July 2024 e-mail View comments When Catherine Earl left university in Sheffield, she landed a low-paid job in recruitment at Boots in Nottingham . Every day, she walked to and from work in the unpredictable, often blustery, British weather to spend the next eight hours sitting in a vast glass office block with thousands of others. Eleven years later, she earns more than £200,000 a year, jetting around Dubai harbour in a speedboat and sipping cocktails in exclusive bars.
Cat, as she likes to be known, is one of an estimated quarter of a million Brits who have moved to Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), over the past decade, lured by the blue skies, designer lifestyle and, above all, fat salaries. Starting out as cabin crew for UAE's airline Emirates, 33-year-old Cat switched career and became an estate agent, for it's in Dubai's booming property market, where values rose by almost 40 per cent last year, that the biggest bucks are made. It's a glossy, high-maintenance life that is not for a shrinking violet.
Cat Earl's devotion to her job includes an eye-watering £10,000 a year beauty and grooming bill to ensure she looks the part Cat's devotion to the job includes an eye-watering £10,000 a year beauty and grooming bill to ensure she looks the part, including £80 mani.