(by FW)
I'm at a big academic conference in D.C., and every time I tell someone about our plans for helping each other with career, they are very impressed. Of course I didn't tell them that our plans change a lot, but they don't need to know that.
I've always been career-oriented. I always wanted to be a teacher and formulated that into a pretty distinct plan to be a professor/researcher/activist by the time I was 15. My FH, on the other hand, has a science degree and is now pursuing a masters in liberal arts. He's still not exactly sure what he wants to do (which I think is kind of exciting).
Our current plan is for him to finish his masters degree, get a job, and pursue writing while I finish my dissertation. Then, I'll get a job (you know, the one of my dreams) in some killer location with lots of sun and in/near a cool city. Then he'll get his Ph.D. And somewhere in there we'll live abroad. And I'll dance in a music video for Justin Timberlake (half kidding). And he'll go to culinary school (or at least that's my plan, as neither one of us currently does any cooking, and I don't favor starvation).
In all seriousness, we're committed to doing what we can to help the other's dreams come to life. It so happens that many of our dreams are in our careers, as our chosen vocations are the best way we can affect change while using all our gifts and talents. Many of our dreams are collective, which is not only convenient, but really amazing. And we're both sure of the fact that we don't want to make work our whole life, that we are devoted to God and each other above all else.
Right now this means that we are going to tag-team on working and going to school, and we're going to live on one meager salary for a while. That is of course until my first book becomes a best seller, I win the Pulitzer, and choose to teach simply for the joy of it. And his master's essay on Jekyll and Hyde will reshape the whole field of literature, thereby guaranteeing our fortune, and we give all our money away and live in Hemingway's apartment in Paris.
Like I said, our plans change a lot.
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It's good that your plans change a lot...that means you'll have the flexibility to make whatever changes necessary when one of you goes in a different direction than you all may have anticipated. I would never have guessed I'd be in my current job when we got married, but we've made it through 2.5 masters degrees and several jobs since then and both find us in career places that make us happy. It will be exciting to see where God takes you guys!!!
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