can a N keep a job?

The ex-Psych professor took 7 years to get his master's degree... and he's been teaching at the same college since 1996.

Mine was quietly ushered into law school out of state when he couldn't get in anywhere on his own merits. No jobs before that. His judge dad got him a job as a states attorney and then he opened up private practice and was made a judge by his dad's best friend. that's pretty much it. Not real hard to do what he had to do.

Mine was quietly ushered into law school out of state when he couldn't get in anywhere on his own merits. No jobs before that. His judge dad got him a job as a states attorney and then he opened up private practice and was made a judge by his dad's best friend. that's pretty much it. Not real hard to do what he had to do.

"Its pretty insane how things go full circle and he is, in my presumption, basically going to school to scope young, impressionable supply." Oh did I mention thats how he found me? In a previous relationship, he had his GF working hard to support his lifestyle, when she got fired, he actually walked into the bacnk (she was a teller) and had a meltdown and yelled at her supervisor. That's how desperate these idiots are!

Very, Very familiar. I told my exN that he souldnt stay with me unless he found a job. He found a crappy one and then gave the excuse that it was crappy and didnt pay anything so he quit. Then he got a better job, at job corps. That basically worked for him because it was like the army and told him where to live, when to eat, what to do, etc. Then he became a "supervisor" in that career and got away with not showing up about 3 times a week (man, love to have that job). Went back and forth to different places with that same type of job. Last I heard he was going to university, not working, and I presume living off his wife who is a successful special ed teacher. Its pretty insane how things go full circle and he is, in my presumption, basically going to school to scope young, impressionable supply. I swear the longest he ever kept a job was working for the CA national guard, which only requires 1 weekend a month and 1 week a year and he gets to shoot guns to boot.

My exN is different. He has a great job, and it is secure, but he has no desire or ambition for more. He was up for a promotion this year, and basically sleep walked through the process. Needless to say - he didn't get the job. Although I was the "breadwinner" in the relationship, and we kept our finances separate, he spent money like it was water, and I DO NOT know how he does it. I know what he brings home and I am just baffled at how he manages to acquire the "things" he wants, and how he can afford to travel so much.

Mine couldn't either. He has had 7 jobs in 10 years! He has his own business now as well and as well it is failing. It really is scary that they all sound like the same guy! Everyone thought he was a genius at the beginning and now everyone that knows him thinks he is a pathological liar, including the guy that is helping him in his latest venture. He literally said "I don't believe N is capable of ever telling the truth". I pity his poor new young wife, she is positively clueless!

My xN couldn't hold a job for more than 2years. Kept getting fired. He has his own compaqny now, so he can't be fired, but it is failing.

The P/N in my life is 36 and has worked for a new company every two years since he started his professional career. He's brillant at the start of each job - walking around talking like an expert, hypnotizing everyone, standing out for his striking appearance. Then, he starts to fade. And by the end of the stint, he's irritable, arrogant, haughty and throwing out hollow threats of suing the Evil Empire for some perceived wrong-doing against him.