Never thought I would use a place like this.
We are both 30. We have a 6 year old daughter. Married 7 years. I'm a fairly well paid professional. I make an okay living. We live in the NE where things are expensive but we do okay. Last spring my wife tells me she does not like staying home. Im okay with this. She says "I need to go back to college" etc etc. She started then stopped paralegal while we were dating. Says she hated it. Lived together and I took care of most bills while working as an assistant manager and her various dead end retail jobs. We lived cheap.
So she spent spring and summer checking things out. We are going to do the community college then transfer thing. She picks. Fine Arts. UGH. I do research and find these are consistently the worst degrees for employment. She is adamant she wants to pursue this and is. After semi arguing about it, she basically said that she is going to do this end of discussion. She enrolled. I didnt fight it. Right now she is taking the general education requirement classes but next semester the art starts. I love her. I really do but this degree has little earning potential. Im flexable. Business, Accounting, Dental Hygenist, whatever that has a clear decent job waiting at the end. Im trying. I really am. College has had some good affects. She made a couple friends. I know she is always talking to another mom of similar age from one of her classes. She really did not have friends before this.(we moved here for my job) I know she was lonely having only me so this is an i mprovement. She seems happier. Just she keeps saying she feels like I don't support her. Im trying.
Someone tell me she is going to make a ton with this degree or beat me into liking it or SOMETHING.
We are both 30. We have a 6 year old daughter. Married 7 years. I'm a fairly well paid professional. I make an okay living. We live in the NE where things are expensive but we do okay. Last spring my wife tells me she does not like staying home. Im okay with this. She says "I need to go back to college" etc etc. She started then stopped paralegal while we were dating. Says she hated it. Lived together and I took care of most bills while working as an assistant manager and her various dead end retail jobs. We lived cheap.
So she spent spring and summer checking things out. We are going to do the community college then transfer thing. She picks. Fine Arts. UGH. I do research and find these are consistently the worst degrees for employment. She is adamant she wants to pursue this and is. After semi arguing about it, she basically said that she is going to do this end of discussion. She enrolled. I didnt fight it. Right now she is taking the general education requirement classes but next semester the art starts. I love her. I really do but this degree has little earning potential. Im flexable. Business, Accounting, Dental Hygenist, whatever that has a clear decent job waiting at the end. Im trying. I really am. College has had some good affects. She made a couple friends. I know she is always talking to another mom of similar age from one of her classes. She really did not have friends before this.(we moved here for my job) I know she was lonely having only me so this is an i mprovement. She seems happier. Just she keeps saying she feels like I don't support her. Im trying.
Someone tell me she is going to make a ton with this degree or beat me into liking it or SOMETHING.
Put the internet to work for you.
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