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[quote=Anonymous]There are a couple of compromise positions here.

You could both look for good Fed or Fed contractor positions.  If you had the equivalent of a GS-15 for him and a GS-13 or so for you, you'd have a very good HHI.  His salary would go down a lot, but you could complement that by increasing your salary.  Your non-profit job probably pays pretty low.  And with a double Fed or double Fed/contractor, you'd have the flexibility you want.  My spouse is a Fed (GS-14) and I am a Fed contractor making the equivalent of a GS-15 and we do very well.  The added benefit is both of our jobs are pretty demanding, but very flexible and that makes juggling household and family and kids much easier.

Another alternative is that you set a limit of X years that he will continue working in the high stress, high pressure job and that you will cut back your spending a lot now and bank a lot of the money.  If you can bank $100-200K of his salary for say the next 5 years, then you'll have $500K-$1M saved up and he can take that GS-15 job with the added cushion of the extra banked money to keep up your life style.  And it could be more if you find a way to invest it wisely (say mutual funds with moderate risk). [/quote]

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