Job potential and marriage
Posted in Insightson Nov 18, 2008
I had a roommate once who wasn’t currently in school, and he was working a low paying food service job. And get got married and I am really happy for him and his wife.
But at the same time, I thought his wife was kind of crazy for marrying him when he didn’t even have a decent enough job to provide for himself.I’m not saying that only rich people should get married. But I do think that everyone should look at the job potential of their future spouse, and that is where it gets tricky, because it is easy to get over optimistic about the potential of the person you love. But a commitment like marriage requires some realistic outlook.
What I think is realistic, is looking at the career momentum of the person. If the person is progressing through school, or successfully climbing a corporate ladder, then that person has good career momentum. But if they aren’t in school, then you kind of have to expect them to maintain the same career path that they are currently in. You cannot expect someone to make a dramatic change to their job potential at some latter point after marriage.
I guess all of the above was an elaborate way of saying, don’t marry someone with a dead-end job.
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