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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where in Ohio? It has three big cities.....[/quote]

Oxford, Ohio [/quote]

Why not here?

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center[/quote]

Yes this could work but that would be one hell of a commute!  I like having choices here in DC . It's nice knowing that I could find a job here in case something were to happen to my current job. I think I am always a bit worried about losing my job. [/quote]

This makes no sense. Your job is so specialized that 10 universities confer degrees in the area and only a handful of hospitals cater to it yet you also want lots of options and are afraid of losing your job. Those two things are incompatible. Either it's specialized and rare or you can have lots of options or it's so specialized you're in high demand or it's not specialized to the point where you can lose your job like anyone. [/quote]

You would have to know someone in my field to understand this. So many people think it's like a nursing job. [/quote]

Honestly, it sounds more like a social worker job to me, based on what I've read. I can understand why a regular regional hospital would not be hiring for this position on the reg, but I'm not sure what makes the DC area so special. If you lose your job at Children's, where would you go work?
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There are 2 other hospitals in the area with childlife jobs. The fact that we are already here makes it easier to stay. I wish my husband would just make up his mind about what he wants. He really wants me to stop working and become a sahm. [/quote]

So it sounds like you think his strategy was to go to graduate school and get a job in a city where you can't find a job. Your job, by the way, does not sound like something you could sustain a family on in this area in the event that your husband doesn't have the easy time finding work here that you expect. You guys need to go to counseling. If you are simultaneously frightened that you will lose your job and unwilling to move to another city because you're frightened that your husband really just wants you to stop working outside the home all together, you need to have a conversation with him in a situation where he can't weasel out of it.

It sounds honestly like you guys need an adult life specialist who can help you sort out your priorities as a family and provide strategies for coping, which you both seem to lack.[/quote]

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