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Working for the wife

I've worked with my wife at a couple jobs (remote employees at a software company/co-workers in the same department at a hospital) over the years. That went just fine for us, but co-workers were the ones who seemed to have an issue with it.
While working together was nice, I don't believe a manager/employee situation would have worked out as well.

-Mike
 
I'm not sure I'd work for my wife full-time, but a couple of weeks ago I took a temporary position/project in which she is technically my boss. She runs an admission office at a university, and needs extra folks to read applications through January, and because I've done similar work before and have the time, I've signed on to make a few extra bucks. So far it's gone well, and the school has internal rules under which she can't "review" or "discipline" me.

But I don't think working together full time would be a good idea. She and I have discussed that possibility in the past, and have always decided against it. In fact, a fantastic position became available at her institution for which I was ideally qualified, and I didn't even apply. This was mostly because I wanted to stay with my current gig, but I also didn't want to work at her school and risk possible problems or tension. I could tell she was apprehensive that I would apply, and we wouldn't have even been in the same department.

As other have said, if you do this, you need some clear boundaries, and unfortunately I think it's pretty risky.
 
Thanks for all of the advice! I'm taking until Sunday to make a decision. Did I mention that it will be much easier to get out of work early for Friday gigs? ;)

Seriously though - thanks for the help!
I get the feeling you are planning to go for it. I'm just thinking I would be very hard pressed before I ever did such a thing but if you are going to do it, try really hard to be professional at work and a good husband at home.