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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:06 am
by Connie
Husband retired 2 weeks before his 50th birthday and went back to her fist love...designing kitchens and bathrooms. I work part time for a real estate office.

Travel has always been important for us and we take at least 2 trips a year. Usually, one to Sanibel Florida and then to St. Thomas.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:37 am
by RickG
Well, another geek here - I have my own strategic technology consulting company that I run day-to-day while working full-time hands-on with clients who are large media and financial services companies as well as small technology product companies. I moved out of big corporate tech consulting so I could come home to the kids each night.

Cheers, RickG

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:04 am
by Tracy in WI
Well, I'm a mom. I don't get paid much, but it works for me! I have a great college degree and prior to kids I was a real estate appraiser. I loved it! I have to figure out what to do next since the kids are getting older....

Juice (hubby) is also an engineer but works in sales for a heating and air conditioning company. They sell to commercial type clients - schools, corporations, etc.

Here too, no inheritance, no trust funds, and like B-as-ur, my kids can expect the same!

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:04 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:28 pm
by Jamestown
I'm an operating room nurse. Hubby is a general/vascular surgeon. Three teenagers, a boy and 2 girls. My son is blind and attends Maryland School for the Blind in Baltimore. We're big animal lovers...currently have 3 very spoiled dogs. When I win the Power Ball I'm going to purchase an apartment on New York's upper east side. We love STJ, Charleston, New York, Colorado and Maine.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:40 pm
by Kentuckygirl
I am a mom with a degree in elementary education. I have 3 children and have been a stay at home mom since I was expecting my first. My husband works in the technology industry. No inheritance or trust funds here either, just a love for travel!(esp. St. John) :D

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:50 am
by Coden
I'm a sales analyst and hubby is a finish carpenter. We have one child who just graduated college w/a BS in Geology and on Sat. is getting ready to move 1,600 miles away for his new job. So come this Sat. we will be true empty nester's. I'm not ready! LOL :shock:

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:20 pm
by NoTanLines
I'm a field HR Director for a disease-management company (healthcare). I have been in Human Resources for 21 years and like b-as-u-r, I'm seriously thinking it might be time for a career change. I don't want to hear any more moaning, whining, b**ching & complaining. :roll: I want to be limin'. Is Deli Grotto still for sale?

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:12 pm
by RickG
NoTanLines wrote:I'm a field HR Director
Human Relations? Come downstairs and pour me a beer!

Cheers, RickG

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:19 pm
by mrsb
Hubs & I have a dog walking and pet sitting business that we enjoy very much; more than our old jobs in computers and science. I have had to take a different day job as dogs that pull have really done a number on my body, so now I sell insurance for the Good Hands people and help out in the pet sitting business when I can.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:20 pm
by pswlrw
Another IT geek - I do desktop support for a large law firm in Boston. Best job in all of IT I always say - our networks are at a different location so no weekends upgrading servers for me :lol:

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:53 pm
by Chickadee
I'm a paralegal doing mostly real estate and land develoopment work (much of the same stuff you probably do, Ali!!). Hubby is a computer programmer.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:14 pm
by Robin in NC
I used to be a creative director for an advertising agency, till I met my true love and moved down here to North Carolina. Now I'm a freelance copywriter, working for advertising agencies in North Carolina and Virginia.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:22 pm
by chicagoans
Another IT geek here: I'm director of marketing for a software company. It's a small company, so I do all things marketing -- PR, events, writing articles, etc. I'm blessed to work most days from a home office, so I can zip out to things like school functions. (I traded a higher salary for more flexiblity years ago, and can't imagine going back!) I'm not passionate about it, but at least it helps finance my vacation jones. :)

DH also stepped off the corporate ladder, leaving a job as a portfolio manager at an international bank to own his own business, doing cleaning and contracting work for the parking lots and drive up areas of banks. He traded a suit and briefcase for a bunch of trucks! But he's happy and also works from home, which is great for both of us. The variable income makes life interesting...

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:39 pm
by Steve S
I'm an engineer by training currently managing the engineering department at an internet vertical website targeting engineers. My better half is an RN at a specialty women's/maternity hospital.

Currently trying to figure out how not to be an engineer and still support my household... :)