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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I are both feds (both 13's), but he may have an opportunity to do something much more in line with his career goals than what he's doing now. I think it might be his dream job, even though he wouldn't call it that. It's the type of job that's hard to come by (tenure track professor), but it comes with a big problem: it's literally all the way across the country in an area where jobs are not nearly as plentiful as here.

When we first moved here 7 years ago, I took a big pay cut and basically started over in my career, even switching industries. I'm now solidly entrenched in government work (management/budget analyst) and am really having a hard time seeing myself give up my career to follow DH. The job is also in a part of the country that is too expensive for just one of us to work, even though it's likely to be a big raise for him. It took me a year to find a job here and I couldn't do it into we'd already moved.

So my question is, how do I conduct a job search from far away? I literally know two people in the whole state! Moving here, at least I had some connections already. I hate to deprive him of his dream job, but with a family now, it's much too risky for us to just pick up and move (I think). Have you or your spouse ever done something like this and it worked out okay? We have some savings but would probably need it to buy somewhere to live after moving. We would make something on the sale of our current house, but we've only been there for 3 years. Where do we even start?[/quote]

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