Solar Week - Ask a Question



Come here during Solar Week (next one: March 22-26, 2021) to interact. To post a question, click on your area of interest from the topics below, and then click on the "Ask New Question" button. Or EMAIL or tweet or plant in Answer Garden your question about the Sun or life as a scientist to us -- and watch for it to appear here.  You can also visit our FAQs (frequently asked questions). In between Solar Weeks in October and March, you can view all the archives here.

PrevPrev Go to previous topic
NextNext Go to next topic
Last Post 3/20/2014 8:25 AM by  KD Leka
2 scientist marriage
 2 Replies
Sort:
You are not authorized to post a reply.
Author Messages

Anonymous





Posts:


--
3/19/2014 7:46 AM

    What if your "significant other" also wants to become a scientist? Do you think would make starting out harder or easier? How would it be later?

    -- Marie (LHS)


    Tags: career, family

    Paulett Liewer



    Basic Member


    Posts:113
    Basic Member


    --
    3/19/2014 3:51 PM

    Hi

    I think "two scientist" marriages are great! I've been married to the guy I met in graduate school in physics for more than 40 years!

    I know many couples with two scientists -- or one scientist and one engineer -- or two engineers. It seems to work as well as most other combinations.

    Of course, it MIGHT make it harder to land 2 jobs in the same place.... but if you are happy in a big city with plenty of "tech" jobs, it shouldn't be much of a handicap.

    Good luck!

    Paulett


    KD Leka



    Basic Member


    Posts:115
    Basic Member


    --
    3/20/2014 8:25 AM

    Hi, that's a great question without any easy answers. Paulette had a very good point that essentially depending
    on what you are looking for in your "personal team", opportunities for both people will need to be
    acknowledged, and sometimes being located near a larger city or metropolis will be important.

    Depending on how close your respective fields are, it can be a blessing or a curse, from personal experience and
    conversations with dual-scientist couples. The blessings are in being able to really relate to highs and lows of
    the respective careers, really speaking the same language, being able to empathize with proposal deadlines,
    deadlines for teaching classes, the need to go to certain meetings, and dinner conversations that invariably
    end up with a pad of paper and pencils and ideas for a new project. The cons can include being under the same
    stress, often at the same time, and the feeling of always bringing work home -- in addition to the challenges of
    ensuring that both people are in jobs they enjoy in the same place at the same time, and decisions surrounding
    what to do if one gets a great job offer somewhere else, etc.

    From what I've seen it can generally work out well, but, like all relationships, not always.

    You are not authorized to post a reply.


    Twitter Feed

    Scientist Leaderboard

    Name # of replies
    Multiverse skin is based on Greytness by Adammer