BarcaDeac
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I feel this so hard. My wife has a very good salary and enjoys the work she does, but the previous administration was awful, so made things hard. They've all been run out of town and the parent company has given her a nice raise and told her she's part of the "core team" to build back up the facility. My in-laws think she should have gotten her MRS degree (and probably married a dr or lawyer) so they don't understand why she still needs to work. they guilt her like hell for not being able to devote enough time to our child. she says all this as the wife of a dr herself and she hasn't worked in probably 35+ years.Yeah, this weekend is basically a long informal interview for a position in upper management and life changing money and they call her over that shit. Like I’m glad you grew up in a time when you could support a family on a single telephone lineman’s salary, but your generation fucked that up, not mine. Don’t make your daughter feel shitty because she is trying to better her kids’ lives.
They're probably actually happy I lost my job at the brewery because they thought it was uncouth for me to work there and my MIL was always too embarrassed to tell her friends where I worked. And of course whenever we visit with them my MIL goes on and on about how some former HS acquaintance of my wife has a great job or is married to a husband with a fabulous job making so much money. it doesn't help that a guy she went to HS with just moved into the very nice house next door to my in-laws (wife absolutely hates the guy, he was a bully to her).
now, if I get one of the roles I'm in the midst of it'll be by far the most money I've ever made, and combined with my wife's salary we would be very well set, for, you know, giving the best possible life for our son. Not dr money, but hey.