Are you happy with your spouses job?

[TinkerPixie]

Just out of curiosity, are you happy with what your spouse does? It occured to me that I really do appreciate DH being an appliance repairman, cause it has saved us a bunch of money!

Is there anyone who really hates what their spouse does?

 

[snoopy]

My husband is a Secret Service agent. I'm proud of him, but I worry that he has that job in these volatile times. But before he worked for the SS, he was a D.C. firefighter, I worried about his constantly when he had that job. I should be used to the fact that he has always had dangerous jobs, but I do worry just the same.

 

[helenabear]

I don't really hate what DH does. He is in IT and the biggest downfall is when he is oncall and gets calls in at all hours of the night. Or like this week, he won't be around much in the evening at all because he will be doing work. He can sometimes help me when I am not sure of how to fix something on my computer as well.

 

[SonjaB]

As long as he's happy with what he's doing, I'm happy.

BUT, if he was in a profession I considered dangerous, I'd be worried. Still supportive, but worried.

 

[JohnTBap]

I like the check.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

DH works in construction. When he works, he works all the time. However, there are SO many factors that can keep him from working in a week. It drives me crazy.

 

[CamColt]

I dont mind his job, but I wish he worked less hours. Of course, him having a good job keeps me from having to work, so I guess I cant complain. Although the company is moving another 15 minutes away so his days will be even longer in a few months.

 

[dalepool]

My husband loved the money but hated my job. I owned a Bail Bonding company---late nights--long hours----surrendering suspected felons. Notice I said Owned-----I loved the work but with husbands illness my being home really means alot to him.

My last surrender was of a convicted felon who had numerous drug convictions and ---a surprise to me---- a bail jump. Dale hated the fact I worked alone--He always worried.

PattyN

 

[caitycaity]

i'm sort of ambivilent about dh's job. he is in IT and as someone else postedthat means lots of late nights (which he doesn't get paid extra for) and calls in the middle of the night, and sometimes our plans get screwed up. he likes it though.

 

[Kermit]

I like what DH does. He's in IT, too, but he rarely ever has to work bad hours. He's the database administrator for a large company. Every once in a while he'll have to keep working after he gets home from work, since the databases can't be down, but never anything in the middle of the night. The company isn't 24/7, so I guess that helps. Plus, he gets to work from home one day a week, and it's great to have him around (most of the time ). When I had the baby, he only had 1 week's vacation since he's relatively new there, but they let him work from home an additional week so that he could be with me for 2 weeks.

 

[SeaSpray]

My DH is a printed circuit board designer and he also writes programs for the company he works for. He loves his work and he's looked up to by his coworkers, supervisors and the company owner, so that makes him happy to know he's valuable to the company and his work is appreciated. He's very well paid, and that makes us BOTH happy because it allows me to be a SAHM.

He never has to work OT, he works 7:15am - 3:45pm, and he works only 25 minutes away so he's home by 4:30pm every day.

Even though DH has a "desk job" he's very handy around the house, he knows electrical wiring, plumbing, carpentry, and can do a lot of auto repairs. I have to thank my FIL for teaching him all these things while he was growing up, along with some thing he learned as an adult

Edited to add: DH and a friend of his also own their own printed circuit board design bureau, so that brings in extra income on the side. It's not steady extra income, but when they get jobs in to work on, he works from home at night and the $$$ is great. The money from his own company is what paid for our WDW trip in May 2001, as well as other family vacations we've taken!

 

[nativetxn]

My husband loves his work and you know that old saying "Give a man a job he loves and he'll never work a day in his life." That is so true for him, I doubt he will ever voluntarily retire.

He practices labor/education law and he loves it.

Katholyn

 

[becka]

I don't have any problems with DH's job. He works as a chemist at the University of Missouri. He likes his job, he has good benefits and he never has to work overtime just his 8 hours M-F. That is a great help with DS because I work in IT and my hours can be strange (including late nights and weekends at times).

The only thing I dislike about his job is the paycheck. If he made more then I could afford to stay home or at least work part time. He makes decent money but because he works for a University his pay is not anywhere near what it could be if he worked in the private sector. We don't live in a big city so there are very, very few other chemist positions in this area. We have talked about moving in the next few years so he will have more opportunities.

 

[Beauty]

The most important thing is that John loves his job. I also like it...John works for Cox Communications, our local cable company. We do get to watch Pay Per View and get all the cable channels and a cable modem for the computer.

He was just recently promoted to manager and put on salary instead of an hourly rate so there will be no more overtime but the raise makes up for that.

The only time I worry is when he is called out in the middle of the night. That usually happens during a storm when a line has been knocked down.

Other than that he is home on the weekends and can stop buy during the day if he wants and he has been there since he was 20 years old so he has loads of vacation and personal time that he can take when he wants. And again he loves it!

 

[lisajl]

My Dh has a great job. He works for a local school system in the IT.

The job he had before was terrible. HE never got paid for the overtime he put in. It was not good.

The best part is that he likes his job, so much so, he hates to take time off.

Lisajl

 

[Pugdog007]

Well... he's a Funeral Director. It's a respectable job but he has to work long hours... nights and weekends. Salary is just ok. I am a Sales Director and also work long hours... but for 2x what he makes (shhhhh.) He doesn't like that I make a lot more than he does

 

[Jenzebelle]

My husband works for Wcom. So I guess it goes without saying that I don't like his job or the constant worrying about whether or not he's going to lose it.

unfortunately, there is just not much out there for his field.

 

[DonnaS]

I like DH's job better than he does. He's a civil engineer for a large city government. The benefits are great-- I just wished he enjoyed it more-- especially since he is so good at what he does.

 

[disykat]

Am I just stupid? I have not idea what IT is - internet technology? iguana training? ....

My husband is an engineer and his current job has lots of overtime and sometimes shiftwork, which can be very frustrating. I love having him work for the government because of the good benefits (mainly vacation time builds up pretty quickly), but he's ready to go commercial.

 

[Pugdog007]

IT = Information Technology
IS = Information Systems