Chip Chick
Seven years ago, this 33-year-old woman met her 35-year-old husband, and four years ago, they got married.
They have two children together, who are three and one. She works as a nurse and just finished up her doctorate, so now she is a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
For the last 13 years, her husband has been working at a chemical plant and is currently in a management position.
“We live in rural Indiana,” she explained. “He makes about 120k, and as a nurse, I make 62k after 10 years of experience as nurses are paid very, very low here, and there are few job options for nurses anywhere near where we live.”
“My dream job was to always be a psychiatric nurse practitioner. He loves his job and gets really good benefits, but the only downside is that his job is regional, and with his position, it’s not a position he can just go and get anywhere else.”
Prior to her starting grad school four years back, she sat down with her husband to discuss the future.
She outlined to him that if she was going to go to grad school, they would absolutely have to move when she finished as there are no job opportunities in her industry where they live.
She ensured her husband understood this, and then she informed him that if he was not willing to move, he needed to let her know before she went to grad school.
She didn’t want to flush four years of her life and nearly six figures down the drain for nothing. Her husband agreed that they could move when she was done if they needed to.
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