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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You both should look for jobs to see if you can find jobs that let you live in the same place even if it's Kalamazoo. You aren't making enough to support a comfortable commuter lifestyle, with everyone getting together at either place for holidays and breaks, and it will stress the marriage and your kid who will figure out it's all "for her." If she's not a sociopath that will upset her. [/quote]

That isn’t happening in any reasonable timelines.

We ended up in DC because of the specialized nature of our jobs (not necessarily high paying but niche). We won’t find a similar combo anywhere else, so the trailing spouse will have to quit and start over in a new field likely [b]making radically less money. [/b]

This is not an exercise in wanderlust — we both go to work everyday wondering if we will get the RIF memo. It’s not like we work for ICE or some other favored agency. Quite the contrary. [/quote]

Why radically less money? Arguably the trailing spouse couldn’t have been making more than $150k, right?

I am not buying that this job is so incredibly unique that there is absolutely nothing else she can do and earn $100k. Her job has to have some equivalent industry or expertise valued somewhere.

I am in a MCOL area and people have all sorts of jobs. My part of town is rather affluent and people have a wide variety of jobs. [/quote]

Again, I seem to only be able to land lateral jobs, I can’t get a huge bump from GS15 in my industry, but I’m hoping to advance once in private.

She is a SES so make around $210k or so, but doing non governmental work there is strictly academic routes. She is not published enough for a university job, so you are looking at community college or high school… and a long shot at a state govt job (they usually have only 1-3 roles for the entire state).

So she should only quit once I am in a solid position, making a little bit more.  Can that happen in DC with our local labor market??  I have applied to about 50 jobs so far and this is the first offer, albeit far away. [/quote]

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