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DVINNY
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There wasn't a category for my wife's job, so I picked Stripper. But who is the other stripper? 
She has a Master's plus, and is further trained in a medical specialty, but is a few hours and residency shy of a doctorate, so I can't put her down as a doc either. She would kill me if I put her down as a nurse, (not that there is anything wrong with that), so stripper works.
There should be a medical catergory for PA's, OT/R's, PT's, etc. Although, she won't show it but gets pissed if someone says "oh, aren't you a physical therapist".
It gets her when people assume she's a nurse too. She smiles and takes it, but I know better.
I guess it'd be like someone asking a P.E. "oh, aren't you an AutoCAD drafter?". (not that there is anything wrong with that)
Funny thing is, she mentioned staying at home after our 3rd one, but her and I both know that she'd go crazy in the house all day. She's a great Mom, but needs her time to do her thing too.
I take my hat off to all Stay-at-Home Mom's. I couldn't imagine trying to pull it off.
She has a Master's plus, and is further trained in a medical specialty, but is a few hours and residency shy of a doctorate, so I can't put her down as a doc either. She would kill me if I put her down as a nurse, (not that there is anything wrong with that), so stripper works.
There should be a medical catergory for PA's, OT/R's, PT's, etc. Although, she won't show it but gets pissed if someone says "oh, aren't you a physical therapist".
It gets her when people assume she's a nurse too. She smiles and takes it, but I know better.
I guess it'd be like someone asking a P.E. "oh, aren't you an AutoCAD drafter?". (not that there is anything wrong with that)
Funny thing is, she mentioned staying at home after our 3rd one, but her and I both know that she'd go crazy in the house all day. She's a great Mom, but needs her time to do her thing too.
I take my hat off to all Stay-at-Home Mom's. I couldn't imagine trying to pull it off.
klk
Well-known member
My husband is an engineer. we make it work because we're totally different types of engineers and our strengths tend to compliment each other (at least that's what I tell myself).
RIP - VTEnviro
His Memory Eternal
It's great to marry an engineer. At a party, you can stare at your spouses's feet the whole night rather than your own.
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Dexman PE
RIP - VTEnviro
His Memory Eternal
She's a hell of a lot better than I am. I think she actually likes people. This may be a symptom of not getting into engineering until grad school.
I had to help her 'think like an engineer' when she started grad school. That was easy for me, I'm totally hardwired like that. She came from a pure science background.
I started taking MBA classes a few weeks back. It's a whole different mindset that is not natural for me.
I had to help her 'think like an engineer' when she started grad school. That was easy for me, I'm totally hardwired like that. She came from a pure science background.
I started taking MBA classes a few weeks back. It's a whole different mindset that is not natural for me.
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Dexman PE
TouchDown
Is it Friday yet?
In the time we were engaged before marrying (I had graduated and went to work while she was finishing school), I lived in squalor and paid off $25k in school loans in 1 year.
We got married and lived in an apartment for a couple years. Where I live has low cost of living. We decided we could afford a house instead of rent, and only saw our monthly payment go up by about $150 per month to own. Chose to go with a fixer upper - kept the payment low and we did a lot of changes to the house (lot of sweat equity).
Did that for 6 years, then moved to a bigger house as the family grew. My wife held a job until #2 came along, then became SAHM. Now we have 3 and he's almost 2 years old, and she mentioned the other day that she was feeling the need to do "something". Even until our kids are probably in Junior High, she'll be mostly SAHM. Doing a PT type job just to bring in a few bucks to pay some bills would be good. Even so, just because of where we live, we're in a 3200 sq ft (5 bedroom house) and our monthly payment (including taxes and insurance) is $1000.
Seriously, I could go work at McDonalds, and my wife get a part time job and we'd be able to pay bills.
I think it just takes a little time - get out from under as much debt as possible, and then be smart.
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Dexman PE
^^^ Agreed.
When my wife went back to school for all of 2008 (she had classes and residency requirements full time from mid January through Xmas graduation), we depended 100% on my income. She only qualified for enough student loans to pay for her school and I had to cover the rest. We had no credit cards, I was able to defer my student loans until she graduated, and everything else was minimized. We moved to a cheaper part of town so we could afford rent, and we basically had $100/week to cover food, gas, & entertainment. Sounds like plenty until you factor in 2 kids under 3.
People quickly forget how much their spending adjusts to their income. This is why people who make $150k per year end up living paycheck to paycheck. My brother and sister-in-law have 2 kids (3rd on the way) and they live comfortably on 1/2 of only my income. It's wierd when my household income is 4x my brothers, and he's the one living comfortably. I just buy too much ****...
When my wife went back to school for all of 2008 (she had classes and residency requirements full time from mid January through Xmas graduation), we depended 100% on my income. She only qualified for enough student loans to pay for her school and I had to cover the rest. We had no credit cards, I was able to defer my student loans until she graduated, and everything else was minimized. We moved to a cheaper part of town so we could afford rent, and we basically had $100/week to cover food, gas, & entertainment. Sounds like plenty until you factor in 2 kids under 3.
People quickly forget how much their spending adjusts to their income. This is why people who make $150k per year end up living paycheck to paycheck. My brother and sister-in-law have 2 kids (3rd on the way) and they live comfortably on 1/2 of only my income. It's wierd when my household income is 4x my brothers, and he's the one living comfortably. I just buy too much ****...
Ble_PE
I need a beer.
^That is exactly why every time I have received a raise, I automatically have that money deposited into my savings account that I never touch. This way, I still bring home the same amount since I only spend money out of my checking account. It helps to build up my savings too, which is nice.
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Dexman PE
That's what I'm doing with both my COLA raise as well as my wife's promotion money this year. We allowed ourselves to expand the budget last year, just because we were going crazy with the cuts we had to make the previous year. Now we're in a more comfortable position which allows us to start saving for a down payment on a new house. Our goal is to buy something mid-2011.
Master slacker
Something awesome.
We're people who never buy anything. We splurged on a tv only because my 10 year old, 20-inch tv decided not to turn on until the 20th time you hit the power button. We have 8 months of living expenses in the bank and whatever comes in that is beyond paying bills goes to the IRA. Once the IRA is maxed out (won't happen this year), some of the excess money goes to mini-Master's education and the rest into extra mortgage principal. Well, that's all in theory. We have yet to get past the IRA step. Maybe this year. :dunno:
Sschell
Dude?
hmmmm... my 10 year old TV decided to eat its own power button... leaving an empty rectangular hole... the remote still worked, but we took that as a sign it was time for an upgrade...
MGX
Well-known member
My TV is almost of legal drinking age! Hope it hangs in there for a few more years!
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Dexman PE
sounds like my parent's TV, except they still use it and I know why the power button is missing. My brother and I thought it would be a great idea to use our rubber-band guns instead of the TV remote (this was probably mid 90's), and unfortunately the only way this worked was if the gun was about an inch away from the button. After about 3-4 shots, the button disappeared into the case. I don't think my parents ever found out why it broke.
I still have a 13 inch TV I bought from Target while I was working there in 1987 - a JVC. Still works, but it only goes up to channel 25 or so. The picture still looks good, even. We were using it in the kitchen but our housekeeper's Samsung died, so she's using it now in her room.
DVINNY
2-time 10K winner
oh yeah, I'm still using that MEASLY 50" Plasma that I got a little over a year ago, the remote and HD work fine, but man....... the suffering.
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Dexman PE
How could you live like that, it must be rough. You're only slightly better off than my year-old 46" LCD. Good thing I have the Playstation3 w/ blu-ray disks & 7:1 surround sound to make it tolerable.
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
Gosh, and we're still using 19" CRT TVs from 1992 and 1996.
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