Wife doesn't work so she gets paid every Friday. Someday I would like a paycheck...

Debt free except for a few med bills and I would rather have her raise my daughter than someone else. It's worth it

We make our living in a somewhat unusual way, where neither of us gets paid regularly.

While she sells freelance magazine articles now and then, mostly she runs the publishing company she started about a dozen years ago--which mostly sells the books she and I write. One odd fact is that around 3/4 of the new books in the U.S. are sold in November and December, so that's when the company makes a lot of its money. But periodic sales throughout the year boost her income now and then.

When we got married 38 years ago she was teaching part-time, so had a steadier income than I did as a freelance writer. But within a few years that changed, to the point where I supported both of us while she wrote her first book. All of it worked well enough that we were debt-free within about 25 years. Haven't had to make a mortgage or car payment for quite a while, so we can each make choices in how and when we work--which is why we have separate companies set up for her income and mine. In the meantime we did a lot of stuff many people put off until retirement, including traveling and hunting/fishing quite a bit around the world.

We both like what we're doing, and in some ways have slowed down a little, but so far have no plans to totally retire.

We don't get any money.


Well....thats not completely true.

We borrow money to live on....pay an assload of interest on that money....and then pay it back.


We kinda rent our paychecks.....

Jeeze....why don't ya brag about it then.......

Don't know when or what she gets paid. We keep the finances separate except for things for the kids.

My wife is the fiduciary for our family's business consortium. She has grown everyones' investment by >6% per annum for almost 20 years. I wish I had retired sooner so that I would have more time to squander our share.

Dumb women a boring.


mike r

Jim,

Sorry to offend you..

We both worked really hard at lower-paying jobs for quite a while. In fact, the first year we were married I spent almost two months working one of my "regular" jobs I'd had for several years, running a combine for a custom-cutting crew--which of course involved being away from home for those two months. During that time I had to replace the rear-end on my 25-year-old Dodge pickup, which I'd already rebuilt the engine on--with one from a junk yard in Williston, North Dakota. That took care of a lot of my "free time" (and some income) during the 15-18 hour days of whacking wheat.

In other "careers" have spent time driving a tractor around and around a summer-fallow field in 90+ degree weather, working "worm's corner" on oil rigs, and repairing railroad tracks as a "gandy-dancer." Started making my entire living as a writer at 30, which still involved just barely scraping by--which we managed to do by moving to a very small town in central Montana where we could rent a house for $150 a month.

But whatever.

Mine hasn't worked for 15 years. She keeps track of the money. I earn it she banks it. I control the investments. She may leave me high and dry. But that's doubtful given our history.

Alternate week from mine.

nice to work and get ss.

better to get ss, with a working wife loves her job.

and do my whatever want to with healthy dose of volunteer work.

thank the Lord every day for health, and hope for wealth.

My wife works as hard as I do as equally as competent at our jobs, just on different levels. She earns a fraction or what I do yet she educates little ones as best that I know anyone can. I build the schools her coworkers populate. Amongst other towers, hospitals, etc.