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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is a constant negotiation.

I married a military officer and for the first 12 years of our marriage I made substantially more.  His retirement benefits are huge though.  We weren’t sure if he would be career, so he studied at night to get his PhD in a technical field.  At that point the civilian salaries available were much higher.  But he loves his service.  So we stuck it out with the idea that when he retired I would step back from my intense and travel-heavy job.  With each assignment cycle (3years) we had to evaluate our choices.

With COVID my job disappeared, so I am changing careers a bit sooner than expected. We are fortunate that we saved aggressively early so our retirement is on track. This has also allowed me to focus more on our kids’ educations at a time when we realized how bad their public education has really been.

We haven’t set dollar figures, we evaluate against long-term goals.  At this point we won’t be getting that vacation home- which was a long shot in any case.  But the kids’ college funds should be ok by the time they need them.[/quote]

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