What are some Good Jobs For Wives of Pilots that move around a lot

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Tazman282

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I know this may have been covered before but couldn't find any using the search.

I am not married yet, but I am engaged and I know that she is the one I could spend the rest of my life with. She is very supportive with the whole airline pilot issue but we are now starting to figure out what she can do for a career?

She will be finishing up her AA in Dec and she doesn't know what she wants to do for a living. She started out wanting to be a Teacher but then became a Pre school teacher. She decided she didn't want to do that when a 3 year old called her a F#$#ing B#$%^ and the kicked her. Those kids are EVIL. She is great with kids but let me tell you these kids were monsters and this particular kid even looked like Snoop Dogg.

Can you recommend any good jobs that are not real school intensive and also that have the ability to move around every few years if necessary?
 
Receptionist (kinda)

Veterinary Assistant (does require a little more schooling though)

I don't really see anything bad with getting more schooling.. the more educated you are, the better options for jobs in all sorts of cities and the better ability to move around and get good money....
 
I think just about anything in the medical field would be easily marketable just about anywhere.
 
Stripper.......

HEY.. they make great money!!!!
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Ummm.... go with "real estate".
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Snoop Dog? Fo Shizzle My Dizzle!

I see she's ruled out teacher, but everywhere you go has some sort of school. Usually kids like the one you described are in different classroom settings by the time they reach the elementary school level. If she were a regular ed teacher she might not have to deal with kids like that.
 
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A nurse would be a little to in depth for her. I think she would be great at it but I don't think she would do to well in the all the classes along the way.

Real Estate would be my number one choice for her but as far as I know you would have to get re-licensed in every state you move to.

Vet Assistant would be up her ally. Maybe I can get her to look into that one.

Stripper thing would be great but she isn't allowed to leave the house and no guys are allowed to come over. Although she would probably be really good at it, but I don't think I am willing to find out.

Have any of you heard of selling insurance or something like that from home?

One of her friend's told her about that today, they make like $15 - $20 and hour and they get to work from home. Not like telemarketing but more of she calls people to fill out the paper work or something like that over the phone. Set's everything up.
 
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Vet Assistant would be up her ally. Maybe I can get her to look into that one.


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YOu do know they make just over minimum wage, right?

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Stripper thing would be great but she isn't allowed to leave the house and no guys are allowed to come over.

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You mean she's not allowed to leave the house NOW????
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or if she were a stripper???

HEY - best of both worlds - set up a internet pay site with nekked pics. That way, ya'll make money, she's nekked, and nobody touches her except you.

BRILLIANT!!!
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My mom sells real estate, sister just got her license, and i might get mine when I turn 18 just to have..its not a bad career, competitive though and your only payed on comission (sp?). You get to basically choose your hours in which you would like to work which is good so you can maintain a life with the kids (someday) and all that.

Badside is salary varies from person to person, my mom makes high 90's and sister is brand new with a wealthy husband.

Hope this helps, go real estate!
 
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Whats wrong with you guys? No one said she should become a pilot that way you both will move around. Not that it will be easy to find jobs but why not let her be a pilot if your going to be one? Imagine you being the CAPT and your Wife the FO? I've never seen that happen before except maybe for the Martha King and her husband. Does this happen?
 
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Whats wrong with you guys? No one said she should become a pilot that way you both will move around. Not that it will be easy to find jobs but why not let her be a pilot if your going to be one? Imagine you being the CAPT and your Wife the FO? I've never seen that happen before except maybe for the Martha King and her husband. Does this happen?

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Having a pilot husband/wife when you are a pilot yourself can be one of the most stressful relationships out there. In some ways it's good, but other ways very bad. There are plenty of husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend crews.
 
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Whats wrong with you guys? No one said she should become a pilot that way you both will move around. Not that it will be easy to find jobs but why not let her be a pilot if your going to be one? Imagine you being the CAPT and your Wife the FO? I've never seen that happen before except maybe for the Martha King and her husband. Does this happen?

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I can tell you from first-hand experience that a relationship where both people fly takes an incredible amount of patience, trust, and flexibility. It helps if both are around the same relative senority standing, or if one is significantly more senior than the other and can bid what the more junior one holds. It worked out fairly well when Bill and I were both flying because we were both relativly pretty junior, and his bids were out before I even saw a bid packet, so I had his days off in-hand when I put my bids in every month.

It can work, but it's not easy! Expect to spend a fair amount of time alone, or non-reving with the other on overnights. There were times when I'd spend 6 days on reserve in NY, some home, and with the hellish commute LGA/JFK - IND was I'd have one day off before having to go back. If I was lucky that day off would also be one of Bill's days off, sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't. I got junior-manned several times and didn't get to go home when I was supposed to, as a result Bill was back to work before I'd finally make it back.

I see a lot more of him now!
 
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Insurance at home is something that would pay alot while she did it, but like RE she'd have to get relicensed in every state, and she'd be leaving her clients. I think RE would be better then ins. Depending on the field, most ins agents get most of their income based on the clients staying with the company, so every time she moved, she'd be starting over w/ clients. RE you don't really have to deal with that. The very very best thing IMO would be office management/business management. If she is good at Word/Excel all those type of programs, then office mngrs can make around $50K, some times a lot more. My mom is sort of in that field, and it opens the door to working at all types of companies, she has worked everything from construction to phone equip. and no matter where you move there is almost always some one looking for office mng.

Something to keep in mind too----when/if you decide to have kids will she want to stay at home? If that's the case, I'd lean more towards something like RE again, because she could do it on her own time instead of putting in a 40 hour week.
 
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Whats wrong with you guys? No one said she should become a pilot that way you both will move around. Not that it will be easy to find jobs but why not let her be a pilot if your going to be one? Imagine you being the CAPT and your Wife the FO? I've never seen that happen before except maybe for the Martha King and her husband. Does this happen?

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People Magazine featured an article about a father/daughter captain and first officer at Southwest Airlines. They flew together once every month or week or something like that...kind of cool if you ask me
 
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Father daughter is WAY different then husband and wife. I just think it would be BEYOND stressful to have both in the same career, let alone flying.
 
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