26 WAYS TO MARRIAGE AND CAREERS

1. You need to know your marriage and career will compete for your attention.

2. You need to know to get your priorities in order: God. Family. Then work.

3. You need to know you could spend less than fifteen minutes a day talking to each other. If that happens, one day you won’t recognize each other.

4. You need to know that your spouse will play a big role in your success at work.

5. You need to know to pay as much attention to your marriage as you do to your career.

6. You need to know to not make work your life. Some of the most successful business people in the world are working on their third marriage.

7 You need to know to not make anyone feel guilty for going to work.


8. You need to know that wives with advanced degrees are at a greater risk for winding up single.

9. You need to know your most important business counselor is your spouse. In fact, most CEOs don’t make an important decision unless they’ve talked it over with their husband or wife.

10. You need to know you don’t have to go drinking with the gang
after work. You need to go home.

11. You need to know that a budding career will mean long hours. And possibly weekend hours.

12. You need to know a working motheractually has seven jobs: she’s a wife, a mother, a housekeeper, a chef, a nurse, a chauffeur, and an employee or employer.

13. You need to know to call home every day. Especially when you’re traveling.

14. You need to know to not be jealous of the other women at the office. Suspicions will drive you crazy.

15. You need to know you may have to move to advance in your career. And to advance in their career,
your spouse may have to stay.

16. You need to know it could be you,her, and her laptop in bed at night.

17. You need to know if your husband works for you, it won’t be easy to fire him.

18. You need to know that just because the two of you can’t work together doesn’t mean you don’t love
each other. Few couples can actually handle being together 24/7.

19. You need to know that both of youworking at the same company can mean problems. A lot of couples thought working together at a large bank was a spectacularly good idea. Suddenly no one in the family had a job.

20. You need to know to discuss whatboundaries you’re comfortable with as a couple before one of you has to work and travel with the opposite sex.

21. You need to know that, in agrowing number of marriages, men no longer make the most money. Yet they still don’t know how to fold laundry.

22. You need to know a wife takes herhusband’s job loss harder than he does.

23. You need to know that if youboth retire at the same time, you’ll be happier. The alternative is a spouse who resents getting up at 6:30 a.m. to go to work while the other one sleeps in.

24. You need to know, if you took time offfrom your career to raise kids, not to blame your husband that the job market is more difficult to enter than it was ten years ago.

25. You need to know that sometimesyou live in one town and work on the other side of the country. Almost four million couples now live in commuter marriages.

26. You need to know if you and yourspouse have different work hours, it will seem like you’re in a commuter marriage.