WITH the pandemic destroying whole industries, getting your partner into a boring but steady job is the only way to keep you in bog roll and broadband. Follow these tips:
Be overly practical
What will human beings always need? Something to eat, somewhere to leave their rubbish, someone to remove the odd appendix or tonsil, and their arses wiping. Any career that doesn’t include at least one of these is a dead end.
Make them retrain
If your partner’s in a high-earning but ultimately doomed career in something useless like marketing, they can’t complain about being asked to train as a cobbler every evening and weekend. Whatever it takes to become indispensable for when society breaks down.
Be flexible
They may be a driving instructor now, but remind them that those same skills could come in handy in the event a tank was needed to block motorways during future pandemic-induced civil wars.
Think long-term
Whatever they end up doing your partner needs to be prepared to work well into their 80s, given what’s going to happen to pensions. Choose a career they can still pursue while you sit at home in your armchair surrounded by the grandkids. Unblocking toilets?
Stay well out of it
It’s crucial that you establish your own role as educator of children and guardian of the hearth early, so you don’t have to go out and get your hands dirty doing nasty shit. Remember the more secure your partner’s job, the more you can stay in.
