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What jobs suit Army Officers wives????

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Wifey1 · 23/03/2011 23:29

A simple question here:

What jobs can Army Officers wives successfully hold down despite all the joyous compromises which come from marrying an officer???

I keep hearing that teaching is a popular choice, any advances on this

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Wifey1 · 01/04/2011 18:35

Hi ladies,

It looks like the thread has dried up a bit now and more nosy parkers are quizzing you on how life is for military spouses on other threads.
Thank you very much for the surge of advice I received, it was very helpful and I wish you all the best.

An aside here: anyone know how to deal with posessive mother-in-laws??!!! :)

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madwomanintheattic · 01/04/2011 22:10

they vanish when you get posted round the world. it's more difficult to be possessive from another country. Wink

hf128219 · 01/04/2011 22:23

Are you on the other thread too? Thought so Wink

madwomanintheattic · 01/04/2011 22:28

it's that tricksy 's'.

difficult for a girl for to work out those double s words sometimes. Wink

Wifey1 · 01/04/2011 22:45

Hey,

I think my spelling has been rather exemplary! Does that mean I'm not cut out to be a military spouse?? Wink Wink Wink

Anyhoo, the other nosy parker hasn't got her syntax right, Scary will tell you that Smile

I may start another big fat thread when I get some essays out of the way, for now, keep well.

x

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madwomanintheattic · 04/04/2011 14:52
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MissingMySleep · 13/04/2011 10:27

If this is any help, I stayed put and DH moved about. Its been hard being apart, but I kept my job, the kids go to the village school, and we have our own house, one we have lived in for a long time, and plan to grow old in. On the plus side he hasn't been posted more than 2.5 hours away so he has always come home weekends etc, and most of the time he has worked on the camp 3 miles away - which makes up for the frequent deployments.

Anyway its another option. It meant I had to work after we had children, as his salary isn't enough for our commitments, but I have been able to go part time and now also have annualised hours (all the school holidays off).

And now he gets out after 22 years this year, we have our house etc, me and the kids are civvies, its only DH that will have the adjustment.

If he had gone abroad I would have rented our house out and gone with, but we have been lucky in that his postings were reasonably close. Mind you when he was due to go to Scotland (we are on the south coast) we had decided that he would go alone and just try to get home as often as poss.

I am not sure if living apart is the right or wrong thing to do, its been really hard sometimes (when pregnant, with toddler, working, and had SPD so had to go up and downstairs on hands and knees I did not enjoy it!!) but now we are at the tail end of his forces career I am glad we did it this way. But it's an option.

Also if you look at big companies, ie IBM, if you work for them and get relocated, they won't blink if you ask to work from a different location as everyone works all over the works already. If you check out some of the large multinationals, you may find one that suits. A number of friends who are married to the forces regularly go with DH on postings, including overseas and just carry on with the company.

Good luck

Scrappyjane · 07/03/2014 21:55

Hi I used a website called Recruit for Spouses I met one of the wives who works for them at an event in Tidworth and they seem to be breaking glass ceilings when it comes to military spouse recruitment the lady I spoke to was really helpful but they're completely self funded and are pitching to big businesses I haven't used them but it's worth a go their website is www.recruitforspouses.co.uk

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