PerkyKoala
PerkyKoala

Software Engineer + SDM Marriage?

I am a software engineer and my parents received a call from a girls family. Both our native places are the same. We have grown up with same set of values. Everything looks damn perfect except for 1 thing. She is a SDM in same state. This is a good point for me as it shows her hardworking nature by cracking a tough exams. Even I am looking for someone who has been really hard working at some point in there life. But thus public sector job has its cons as well, which is transfers and postings to different places within same state. We are now talking since past week. She says she will try getting her transfer done to my place after marriage and that it is possible as well. She gives me example of her colleagues where private and public sector combination worked out. I also feel convinced many times but some days I feel like I will be restricting my job opportunities in other places. My place of work gets automatically constraint to my current one. Although it is closer to my hometown and eventually I plan to settle there. But always in my life I have kept my options open for place and company I work at. Being an SDM has its attraction I agree but it is this aspects which is playing a negative role for me. In my family everyone is a private sector employee and those who were in public sector have shifted to private as well. For her everyone in her family is government job holder. Please suggest what should I do as our parents would need some answer from me. She will have same setup with any other person so she doesn't have much to ask me, it is me who asks about our future setup is going to workout.

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PrancingHamster
PrancingHamster

Go for her. Everything settle.
If both keep efforts everything falls in the right path. Govt job security, free time, fixed time,office, salary based on grade.

private job more salaries, less free time, extended times, wfh.

If both are busy both get tired and have no time for each other.

Best combo..to each other. Both can understand each other's struggles and grow together.

PerkyKoala
PerkyKoala

Will spending time together become a reality sometime in future? Or will we just keep on managing and planning for staying together. It looks like an extra overhead no?

GroovyBanana
GroovyBanana

Rest assured you are going to be under her thumb for your entire life.blunt but truth...

PerkyKoala
PerkyKoala

Talking to her doesn't give vibe of an SDM though. Not sure if someone can change that drastically

JazzyBoba
JazzyBoba

Tricky to hai bhai situation

PerkyKoala
PerkyKoala

Yeah a tough situation bro

BouncyNugget
BouncyNugget

Ask yourself if it’ll be all worth in the end. Take some time to figure out. If you have doubts after giving this thought a try then move on.

PerkyKoala
PerkyKoala

Spending time together is very important for me. To this she says she will get her transfer done to my place of work after marriage as there is some spouse transfer request which can be done to the government and they consider is 90% of the times. It will take few months but will eventually happen. She gives me a lot of examples, which I have to trust on and no other option left for me. Doing trust before marriage of a very important aspect is also tough for me.

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