{"id":1192,"date":"2013-04-08T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2013-04-08T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T21:04:48","slug":"good-jobs-vs-good-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/good-jobs-vs-good-husbands\/","title":{"rendered":"good jobs vs good husbands"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the New York Times obituary for Yvonne Brill<\/a>, she is quoted as saying,\u00a0\u201cGood husbands are harder to find than good jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think she’s got a point, although I think that there’s also a difference of expectation between jobs and husbands (good or otherwise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
jobs<\/th>\nhusbands<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
can change every 3-5 years<\/td>\ngenerally frowned-upon to change every 3-5 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
can look for a new job while still holding my old job<\/td>\ndating while married isn’t generally acceptable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
leaving a job needs two weeks of notice and a little bit of paperwork<\/td>\nleaving a husband requires (at least) several weeks, a lot of paperwork, and a lawyer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
can accept a new position because it’s an awesome opportunity<\/td>\ntaking a new husband because it’s an awesome opportunity would earn me the label of “gold digger”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
can try out something new and go back<\/td>\ncan’t try out a new husband and go back to a previous one1<\/a><\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
a software engineer who has 7 different jobs in the course of their 40+ year career is normal<\/td>\na person who has 7 different partners in the course of their 40+ years as an adult is not normal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"windy\"<\/a>I’ve got a good husband, and we’ve been married for nearly 4 years. \u00a0By Silicon Valley job standards, I should be out hunting for a new one, but I think I’ll stick to societal standards instead of job standards on that one.<\/p>\n

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  1. Even Liz Taylor, who did marry Richard Burton twice, didn’t have an intermediary husband between her first and second marriage to him. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the New York Times obituary for Yvonne Brill, she is quoted as saying,\u00a0\u201cGood husbands are harder to find than good jobs.\u201d I think she’s got a point, although I think that there’s also a difference of expectation between jobs and husbands (good or otherwise). jobs husbands can change every 3-5 years generally frowned-upon to … Continue reading good jobs vs good husbands<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}