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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry. I'd never marry someone with such low earning potential. If you're going to marry someone intelligent, why not marry someone intelligent enough to put that to work for a grown up paycheck?[/quote]

This is not informed.  In many fields, including my DH's, professors make comfortably into the low six figures for a flexible, secure, relatively low stress job that rarely requires more than 9-5 work and offers interesting and rewarding work on the topic of your personal interest.  [b]There is no better job available anywhere, if you can get it. [/b] The job market for such positions is very tight, but if you get one, it is a great field.[/quote]Totally agree with this.  Dh, who is in humanities, has a good paying job in a friendly and decently respected department he likes which is in DC.  I am so jealous of him.  I would give anything to have that kind of job.  I could get an academic job but it would be low-paid in a small town or city not anywhere near DC so I decided to give up on academia.  But most people don't get gigs like dh.  A bunch of our friends got jobs in less than stellar institutions in conservative, rural areas.  That would have been fine with me if I had been single and movable, but it's very hard on a lot of folks who would rather be in urban areas.[/quote]

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