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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by ozarker on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:48PM (#29008706)
My wife and I are too. Though we had our first child last week. She said earlier in the pregnancy that she would like to keep in the workforce. But as each day passes with the baby it feels more likely she'll decide to be a full-time mom. Either decision is fine in my book :)
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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by m0llusk on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:17PM (#29008869)
Kids need programming too.
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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by CameronNemo on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:13AM (#29009474)
Boop the snoot in Morse code!
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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by goldenkey on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:20AM (#29009823)
And Morse code is quite efficient!

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/02/08/how-efficient-is-m...

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by gambiting on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:47AM (#29010590)
Congrats :-) me and my wife are both software developers too, and well, our 6 month old is sitting right next to me now :-) but I think she will want to go back to work - well, there's another 6 months of maternity leave ahead so plenty of time to decide.
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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by mostertoaster on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:35AM (#29010193)
Congrats! My wife went back to work for like 3 weeks after 3 months off with our first. Then she just decided to no longer have a job that gives a paycheck. She works, harder than I, and of more import. She just doesn’t get a paycheck.

Though... she went back to Starbucks and service industry != tech industry by a long shot so....

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by kmonsen on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:54AM (#29009996)
Congrats on your child!

I can see both sides, but one thing to think about is that coming back to software engineering after 5-10 years away would be brutal. It’s also a place it’s famously easy to coast and take it easy for a while.

But if I went through a pregnancy I would need a big rest and enjoy the rewards afterwards :-)

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Re:Which jobs most often pair together among married couples by comeonseriously on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:51PM (#29008727)
Congratulations on your first child! That's so cool.
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