What is your greatest challenge right now

[MrsK]

He's bringing work home and working on notes all night.

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[houseelf]

1)The undeniable realization that the thing you have sold your soul for really isn't all its cracked up to be.

2)The doc's job will always suck up a disproportionate amount of time, energy, and emotions from the family. There is nothing you can do but to accept it and try to build your life around it as best you can.

3)We paid more in student loan debt the last three years than we did towards the mortgage on our very nice house. Complete first world problem and thank heavens we can pay it, but it is another variation of reason number one.

[JDAZ11]

1)The undeniable realization that the thing you have sold your soul for really isn't all its cracked up to be.

2)The doc's job will always suck up a disproportionate amount of time, energy, and emotions from the family. There is nothing you can do but to accept it and try to build your life around it as best you can.

3)We paid more in student loan debt the last three years than we did towards the mortgage on our very nice house. Complete first world problem and thank heavens we can pay it, but it is another variation of reason number one.

Um yeah... Well said.

[Bittersweet]

1) The black cloud that is DH's student loan debt; and
2) The nagging fear that DH won't be able to find a job in a location where we'll both be happy.

[BonBon]

The fact that he very much enjoys his job and gets paid very well to do it. Awesome for him, but challenging for me because I have very VERY few opportunities here and while he has agreed to look for another job, it has to be P.E.R.F.E.C.T. In other words, I'm probably stuck.(does that make me a selfish bitch? if so, don't care.)

[medpedspouse]

The fact that he very much enjoys his job and gets paid very well to do it. Awesome for him, but challenging for me because I have very VERY few opportunities here and while he has agreed to look for another job, it has to be P.E.R.F.E.C.T. In other words, I'm probably stuck.(does that make me a selfish bitch? if so, don't care.)

No, but it makes HIM one.

[MAPPLEBUM]

No, but it makes HIM one.

agreed

[diggitydot]

My biggest challenge? The dude not being able to get a break. He's always "on" unless he's on vacation. And he's baaaad about scheduling his vacations. Dude needs a break for his own mental health and I hate seeing him feel beat down by non-compliant patients and self-centered (some, not all) partners.

[PrincessFiona]

The fact that he very much enjoys his job and gets paid very well to do it. Awesome for him, but challenging for me because I have very VERY few opportunities here and while he has agreed to look for another job, it has to be P.E.R.F.E.C.T. In other words, I'm probably stuck.(does that make me a selfish bitch? if so, don't care.)

Sing it sister! It's hard to figure out how to make your own life fit in somehow.

[samssugarmomma]

The fact that someone that doesn't even know us gets to decide when we get to see him.

[ladymoreta]

Oral board studying and debt.

[mommax3]

1. How to keep myself
occupied so I don't smother him when he comes home because I've been bored all day (right now I work....but I don't think I am going to want to right up until DH retires).

2. His sleep is a big issue. After all these years, he can't sleep more than 4-5 hours at a time (and that's a good night), and we both know he isn't sleeping enough. He has never been a sound sleeper, even as a child, but this is a new low for him.

[spotty_dog]

Figuring out how to spend all the extra money that keeps cropping up in the budget. I'm totally serious, it's just sitting there so my usually restrained husband is like, "I think I need yet another high-end luxury bicycle," and I'm like, "Well, sure, you work hard for your money so go for it, but...where's my extravagant splurge?" Ugh, petty.

We're also another couple who landed in a great location with a job that couldn't be better for DH but zero opportunities for me. Zilch. And no further education either. With my baby in school I'm starting to feel pressure to do something within the year but there IS nothing.

And I sometimes get the feeling like we're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Right now things are perfect. DH has good hours and great pay and a lot of respect professionally, and we feel settled for the long run. But the smallest nudge -- scheduling could change and throw him back into the chaos of night shifts, or a political snafu could embroil him in something unpleasant -- and we'd be back to stress and job searching and uncertainty.

[wiva]

Well, I feel fortunate reading other replies. I'd say my biggest frustration/challenge currently is that the program just decided that 2nd year call burden is too heavy, so starting next year, 3rd and 4th years will take call as well. DH is a 2nd year. So he gets to do this crap-ton of call with no help from currently 3rd and 4th years, and now he gets to take call the next two years as well.

Other than that, we ended up in a city we like, I found a job I like, financially things are pretty good, and his schedule isn't that bad.

[Ladybug]

Eight years out I feel like we're in an awesome spot. This was our only job offer, and we never thought we would stay here. NE winters suck, but schools rock and we like the small, personable community. It's worked out well. DH and I were talking about it this morning. It feels like we've finally made it…although we can't define it and it's not what we thought it would be either.