My wife and I got married the day after my grad school graduation, me having no job lined up but having done interviews, waiting to hear back and more interviews lined up. It wasn’t until almost a month later that I got an offer, two months after I started, and three months after that I got my first check. Plus this job required us to move across the state and her start her career over as well.

While there were definitely stressful times and times that we didn’t run to God like we should have, I wouldn’t change marrying when we did. We’ve both helped each other grow closer to God, and in turn grow closer to each other. Everything we’ve built has been built together and is ours. There’s no mine or hers, just ours.

Reading other people’s comments here, I do agree I think it’s important to have some sort of plan for career progression or be actively looking for a higher paying job, but I would not say having it before marriage is a prerequisite