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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm another guy with a pricey engineering degree from a great school and am making about $60k doing interesting work. 
My wife resents the hell out of it and it will probably land us in divorce court.[/quote]

I hear you - space kind of work by any chance? I have a masters, worked on projects that are in the Smithsonian (space), worked zillions of hours but got paid less than a new teacher. No hope for much more - unless you move to a boring job (commuter, management? Startup somewhere?). 
I'm a gal but your wife could not have expected the big bucks because they are just not there.  I used to mostly see engineering guys marry teachers or nurses - firmly middle class with no extra should have been expected. The guys were always grandstanding about how cool they were with their technical skills but I always wondered what the wives thought of the income if I thought I was getting pennies for the 80 hours of week of work (time away from kids and family for low pay seemed like a really bad deal to me).

I wouldn't want to change to a more boring job either. Hmmmmmm.

It was really hard work to get the degrees and you had to be really smart but then there was little pay associated with the career (exception is if you have a Ph.D. rather than just a masters). I'm not encouraging my kids towards engineering. Lots of workers from foreign countries taking the jobs anyway 
- they can pay them even less.

OP can your hubby teach for a private school and get free tuition for the kids? If private school is a big priority you could talk about that. 
Private high schools have many Ph.D.'s from good schools teaching there - which should also clue you in to the fact that all don't graduate and become hedge fund managers.[/quote]

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