Clickly Poll!

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• Diamond_Doll

  June 2011

  Salary wasn't a factor for me at all. Honestly, though, the idea of marrying a teacher was appealing. I didn't purposefully seek out a teacher, but in college I had a little crush on a guy I worked daycare with, and I remember thinking it would be nice to marry a teacher. Lots of vacation time. Now, I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Robin had been a physical therapist or vet (his other choices), just because it would be possible to be a SAHM.

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• mz_zane

  June 2011

  I voted snowflake.  Initially I was going to say no, because my husband has what I consider a job not a career - in other words, he is employed for the paycheck but has no desire to stay in his current job or field even, so its not a permenant position. He makes enough to kind of get us by BUT, the snowflake part, I also know that if he could finish school and get a job with his degree, he has the potential to make a very comfortable living. I would be lying if I said I'd never considered that, but I don't feel it affected my decision to marry him.  Theres no guarantee he'll go back to school, so its just as likely he'll stay in his current financial level as it is he'll move up. Also, I would just rather him be in a job he likes, regardless of the income he brings home.
  

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• Mrs. Mo

  June 2011

  I voted "not at all". If it was more of a question about dating in general, then I may change my answer. Although I didn't have any salary requirements when choosing to date him (or any other guy), I purposely steered clear of guys that were unemployed for purely selfish reasons. When I first started to get back into dating, I started to see a guy that had no job but was a full time dental student (in post-grad school for his DMD) . Not only did it limit the things we could do/places to go, but I ended up picking up the tab all.the.time. I'm not saying that I was looking for a guy to throw money at me, just for someone who could afford to take me out to a nice dinner every-so-often or pay for movie tickets. He also didn't have a car ( lived in Boston near campus) so I had to be the one to always drive to see him. It became a PITA very quickly.

  
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• wamozart12

  June 2011

  My spouse was unemployed when he proposed, so...
  

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