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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi---I was wondering if i could ask your advice. We are first time parents, both feds. Wife makes 80k, husband makes 50k per year. We have decent savings, but presently living in a 1-BR apartment which we are renting. My question is--- should we consider having one of us leave the government, and make more--if we dream to pay for our child's college and get a small property to call our own? Would be great to hear from other couples who made it. TY[/quote]

What is your DH *true* growth potential in his career? What field is this?  He may make a good bump, maybe even another 30k, but in the range you are talking about it seems likely that his *industry* is getting squeezed if this is the going rate in govt. And thus you have to worry about stability and viability of his long term career.

Is he a rainmaker, will he hussle and rise to the challenge of private industry? It is a different pace and focus, depending on the agency you are coming from. Some are driven by the mission and feel their work impacts lives, and thus you work in an engaging and ambitious work environment; other agencies are filled with folks in a niche bureaucratic position where culture is very different from a profit seeking enterprise.[/quote]

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