What's ur job before meeting ur husbie/wife?

[LoriLawless 0]

Hey I'm a bean counter.

you into regulations too ?

... regulating the beans to keep a cap on natural gas production ?

Not when Charles is around.

[yogib37 3]

is the implication that we have given up work now that we're married?

I earn more than my husband, and I work in the film industry. B)

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm film industry.....

yes Bro dean,,

I have that same thought but, not posting it

Great minds think alike

:devil:

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Moral grandstanding aside, I'd really like to know how most couples here who are both working and have careers plan to juggle those careers while raising a family. There's no right or wrong answer here, but it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

[CaNdiD wiTcH 0]

I think the word "corrupted" or "constrained" might fit better.

I dunno. By the look of Troll's avatar.... corroded does seem to fit. lol

oh! i was working with a company that deals with machines and instruments so we are comparing machines to a human brain..

if a machine is corroded then it would not work properly most of the time (it needs some clean up)..

same with human brain (so many pollutants).. corrupted...

so we came up with the word "corroded brain" if we need to pertain to a particular person with malfunctioning brain...

[mawilson 2,133]

Moral grandstanding aside, I'd really like to know how most couples here who are both working and have careers plan to juggle those careers while raising a family. There's no right or wrong answer here, but it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Gee, I don't know. Most people somehow manage to work and raise children, it's not rocket science.

[Nessa 23]

Moral grandstanding aside, I'd really like to know how most couples here who are both working and have careers plan to juggle those careers while raising a family. There's no right or wrong answer here, but it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

We don't have kids. We agreed that if we do we'll have only one. I'd certainly keep working cuz I'm the kind of person that needs to have a job, I'd go crazy if I stayed home. It would be easy for us to raise 1 child, cuz we have everything we need here on post, there's daycare, before and after school care, plus I don't see the need to be with the kid 24/7, instead let them interact with other people. We'd still spend a great amount of time with them, so it's not like the kid would be neglected.

If me or Charles were the kind of person that would settle to stay home and take care of the children, we could then consider having more than one, probably not Charles cuz he makes way more money than me and he'd need to keep that job to support us, but knowing how much child care cost, for me staying home would be cheaper than coming to work, since we'd be spending more money on child care than I make working.

I don't think it's any less noble to be a home stay parent. Whatever works for you financially and emotionally. It wouldn't work for us, so we just don't have a bunch of kids cuz we know that would force me to be a home stay mother.

Edited June 25, 2008 by Nessa

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

... it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Doing it doesn't make it noble. Why one does it is the source of nobility.

When you 'sacrifice' your career in exchange for the predetermined sum of 2x salary, that's not very noble.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Moral grandstanding aside, I'd really like to know how most couples here who are both working and have careers plan to juggle those careers while raising a family. There's no right or wrong answer here, but it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Gee, I don't know. Most people somehow manage to work and raise children, it's not rocket science.

LOL...speaking from experience, Mark?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

... it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Doing it doesn't make it noble. Why one does it is the source of nobility.

When you 'sacrifice' your career in exchange for the predetermined sum of 2x salary, that's not very noble.

So if you're wife, before she married you, was making a lot of money back in her home country (for the sake of the argument), and she would have to walk away from that job and possible career just to be with a schmuck like you, you wouldn't think that were noble?

Edited June 25, 2008 by Jabberwocky

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

... it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Doing it doesn't make it noble. Why one does it is the source of nobility.

When you 'sacrifice' your career in exchange for the predetermined sum of 2x salary, that's not very noble.

So if you're wife, before she married you, was making a lot of money back in her home country (for the sake of the argument), and she would have to walk away from that job and possible career just to be with a schmuck like you, you wouldn't think that were noble?

Not if it meant negotiating a specific price for her to do so.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

... it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Doing it doesn't make it noble. Why one does it is the source of nobility.

When you 'sacrifice' your career in exchange for the predetermined sum of 2x salary, that's not very noble.

So if you're wife, before she married you, was making a lot of money back in her home country (for the sake of the argument), and she would have to walk away from that job and possible career just to be with a schmuck like you, you wouldn't think that were noble?

Not if it meant negotiating a specific price for her to do so.

I'm not arguing any other point other than ...a spouse setting aside their job and possibly their career to be with their spouse is no less noble than when one parent does so to raise the children. This is where progress and tradition collide. The family and the marriage, IMO, should take priority over career. Just how that gets worked out though must be a mutually agree upon decision.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I'm not arguing any other point other than ...a spouse setting aside their job and possibly their career to be with their spouse is no less noble than when one parent does so to raise the children.

Then we are arguing two different points

Because I agree with you!

I just think negotiating a 'price' for it tarnishes it.

[mawilson 2,133]

Moral grandstanding aside, I'd really like to know how most couples here who are both working and have careers plan to juggle those careers while raising a family. There's no right or wrong answer here, but it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Gee, I don't know. Most people somehow manage to work and raise children, it's not rocket science.

LOL...speaking from experience, Mark?

Sure.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Moral grandstanding aside, I'd really like to know how most couples here who are both working and have careers plan to juggle those careers while raising a family. There's no right or wrong answer here, but it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Gee, I don't know. Most people somehow manage to work and raise children, it's not rocket science.

LOL...speaking from experience, Mark?

Sure.

Edited June 25, 2008 by Jabberwocky

[no name 1]

... it seems that setting aside one's career to be with their spouse is somehow less noble than doing so to raise children?

Doing it doesn't make it noble. Why one does it is the source of nobility.

When you 'sacrifice' your career in exchange for the predetermined sum of 2x salary, that's not very noble.

So if you're wife, before she married you, was making a lot of money back in her home country (for the sake of the argument), and she would have to walk away from that job and possible career just to be with a schmuck like you, you wouldn't think that were noble?

Not if it meant negotiating a specific price for her to do so.

I'm not arguing any other point other than ...a spouse setting aside their job and possibly their career to be with their spouse is no less noble than when one parent does so to raise the children. This is where progress and tradition collide. The family and the marriage, IMO, should take priority over career. Just how that gets worked out though must be a mutually agree upon decision.

The cave is that aways....