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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love my new company. I work at HQ in mid-level manager role. My eye is on moving up and doing it quickly. I have a toddler at home and a spouse with an inflexible job and a very "DC" career.  We earn about the same, but due to choices we've both made my income potential is now higher.

The advice I got to move up is to be "relocatable" globally and/or be willing to take a job that requires significant travel for double my salary.  If I just try to job hop locally, I'll only see incremental increases never enough to make a difference as DC is not a good city for what I do. (See above for DH "DC" based career - we've been here 10 years for him).

Im ok with moving /traveling if it means meaningful work and enough $$ to do things like pay off student loans or move inside the beltway. (We are ok, but struggle in the DC region cost of living). My spouse says absolutely no to either.  He can't handle childcare and working and his career would be over if we left DC - even if we left to go to Europe for a year, he thinks it would be impossible to get back in the game.

So give up the dream? Ideas?

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Are you planning on having more children?  If not, your spouse may be more willing for some travel once your child enters full day school and it becomes easier.  Having a traveling spouse means that the at home spouse is essentially agreeing to being the primary parent and being the "single" parent when the spouse travels.  You cannot do this without your spouse's buy in.  This is true regardless of the gender of the traveling parent.

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