so i was talking to ms jbj today and she said jokingly: my dad says i've not to marry you because you won't have the same earning capacity as me and i should marry someone i won't have to keep...

i was like wtf?!?!?!

in her defence he is way over protective of her and all of her sisters and she didn't take him seriously but still...

she's half planning on being a doctor, either way she'll most likely be making a shitload of money doing some sort of sciencey thing so i can see why she wouldn't want her marrying some stop out.

but i'll be teaching in a high school which for someone coming from a place where most people my parents age won't even earn £15,000 a year, starting off on 20k and getting year on year raises of about 10% isn't exactly shabby. i mean it's not like i'd be working in mcdonalds or just killing time till that multi million quid record deal appears....

never mind the fact that her next oldest sister is an absolute disaster of a human being with a shitty job i'm pretty sure if by some miracle a deaf blind astronaut decided to ask the tramp to marry him the old man wouldn't be stopping her from mooching off of him....


what do you guys think? this is all hypothetical btw since i wont be teaching till next autumn and she won't be a doctor or surgeon or whatever it is she's planning on doing for a bunch of years yet and marriage is not something we're even close to considering but i just thought it was interesting that the good old british class system isn't quite ready to totally die yet and was wondering if any of you had input or experiences like this.