Married to a surveyor

I entertained the idea of working with my spouse but realized early on that it would never work. Good on you both for making it work!

Congrats on your anniversary! Here's to many more.  

He's working with a svengali so he doesn't really have a choice does he?

@lurker EXACTLY!

I used to work with my wife every so often when a job demanded a second person. Once she got hung upside down on a barbed wire fence a quarter mile away. I told her to figure it out herself and she finally did, but boy did that cost me. New pants, flowers, cocktails and a steak dinner at the expensive  restaurant. Would been cheaper to pay someone real money to help me out. Heard about it for at least a month following. So did all our friends.

Congratulations on your 25th!!!!!

Also: Are you out of your mind????

Just kidding, just kidding, and no SWMBO doesn't work with me,,,,,,,much, only to do notary for us. 

Congratulations on your longevity. Either I chose poorly, or they did. Regardless, 3 failures that couldn't stay in the same house, much less work together.

Found it interesting that you posted under Business, Finance, & Legal section  

Congrats on the 25 years

Hell no, I can't even work with myself

@ontarget1 oh boy - guess that was the last time?

@ric-moore That's hysterical - was originally posted under idle chat  ??

@mightymoe If I'm going straight honesty I had no idea this is how life would work out - we met at work, a small surveying & engineering firm, and dated under the radar for 6 months before announcing our engagement. He left to go out on his own a few years later after not getting promoted from within. I stayed for another few years and then left after our second child turned 3.

We both had the skills to make it work and we can both have super flex schedules.The scariest part was he went out on his own just before our son turned one, it crazy to think we are where we are.

You are proof positive that there is an exception to every rule.  Good for you.

Absolutely not

@svengayle 

I think it's great, my wife was a long time teacher, taught from kindergarten to college. She retired when COVID hit but she still does a class at the college two nights a week.

Can't imagine us working full-time together, who would give the orders? LOL

I just celebrated my 48th wedding anniversary; it probably would've been cut short, if we worked together...

I've been surveying for almost 48 years, too

Shortly after we married, my second wife (current) attempted to tell me how to run my farming business.  We had a discussion (FIGHT) about that.  She promptly began ignoring my farming decisions.  That was much better for both of us.  While I was laid up for a few months lately with a back problem, she did help out some with feeding cattle.  She was careful, though, to not make any comments as to what I was doing wrong.  Wise decision for both of us.

We recently hit the 25th anniversay milestone.  I had made it only about 14 years with wife number one and she had made it less than 10 years with her husband number one.  There is a lot of education packed into divorces that you just can't get anywhere else.  This summer would have marked 52 years if I had stuck it out with the first wife.

Don't ask how many wives there were between wife number one and wife number two.  As far as I can tell, their husbands still don't know.

I moved in with my GF five years ago and am a PLS, she works in an entirely different career field but for the last three years we have shared the same home office and are together 24/7.  We get along great and both have learned a ton about what the other does for a living.  She goes to her office twice a week lately and works a half day there and I only go to my office once a month or so.  I love it!

@holy-cow I love your cheeky banter - I pray for all those married / involved with a surveyor. Most surveyors get that life is supposed to be so simple and yet have to deal with head scratching issues on a daily basis. 

The hardest part is that it is 24/7. It's our whole life, lifestyles and family income. We make an effort to go away, just the two of us, each year and turn it all off for anywhere from 4 - 21 days. And everywhere we go we find / see benchmarks and it bonds us in the weirdest way. 

Cheers to many more years with your current wife.

My wife is our book keeper / accountant and it works out great- she is way more motivated than I am when it comes to the collecting money side of the business. Every once in a while i will grab her for a survey instead of sending a crew if its simple and in a place she hasn't seen- she gets to see more of the village / small town side of the state, and I get someone to help w/ measuring up for an Alta or simple design survey.