Thread: My Wife Is Having A Career Crisis Moment

Originally Posted by outback

Pour some oil on her, add some grease into her hair, and throw some rust in her face. If not a whimper comes from her lips, she'll make a fine mechanic.

Thought you were going somewhere else with that one!

This and the other comments are all good, gonna have to read through and make some flash cards with bullet points!

I've recently had similar discussions with my wife. What I've come to realize and had to say to her is that she has been under a common misconception that she has a right to be happy with the work she's doing. While that would be nice, and I'd love to do the same, there ARE other things to be concerned with. What I've been hammering home is that entertaining ideas like being happy with her job is a luxury that she's come to know on the back of MY job. Without MY job its not even up for consideration. But MY job is no more guaranteed tomorrow than anyone else's. If I lose it, we're both screwed. We need to operate as a team. And that means she has to be prepared to be the stop gap that I have been during this time if my job is lost. We all want to be happy with our jobs but we won't be too happy if we can't pay the mortgage or eat. Change careers if it makes sense. Just make sure it makes sense

Hope she don't mind loosing some skin n blood, a common occurrence.