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I did, briefly, a long time ago, because it was on my bucket list to work in a small company. It was regrettable. Biggest hive of evil-minded, gossipy old biddies (both men and women) I ever encountered.
I don't think it is possible to overstate your professional exposure when the management policies and practices are limited to gossip. You will be the wife's favorite target if you are younger than she is - and everybody else will pick up on the cue.
Give me the F100 any day. They're up there because nobody has time to get paid for malice. There's actual - err - work to be done.
A friend of mine left a very good stable job in the medical field to go work for a patient and his wife. It was an aircraft part manufacturing company and they made specific parts needed on jet planes. The company did very well and they offered her a significant pay raise by switching jobs.
Big mistake.
The wife was a very terrible person to work with. She was more than likely going through menopause and she was bipolar on top of that so working with her was a nightmare from what she described to me. She only lasted about 2 months before the wife just lost her mind and started screaming and yelling and pretty much told her to get out when she tried to blame my friend for a shipping error that had nothing to do with my friend but the wife needed someone to blame.
After hearing her horror story I swore I'd never work for a husband wife team ever.
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Many friendships were destroyed by becoming business partners, but many more marriages were. There are exceptions, but when times get tough and spouses disagree on what to do it's a disaster.
I bought a business in 1993 that was being sold to settle the divorce of the previous owners. That in itself is telling. While my wife and I were co-owners, she did no more than an occasional errand for me. I hired people to help out but she stayed out of it completely, and that helped keep it successful for 17 years, and our marriage for going on 40 years.
If you choose to work for a couple, you may luck out, but be prepared to find them giving you different, conflicting orders, and/or eventually getting late paychecks, then being laid off.
Once. It was dysfunction junction and when the wife (the actual owner of the business) walked out after a fight with one of the staff leaving patients to reschedule, I was done. The husband was a total creeper and had no business managing people. It was a nightmare and I'll never do it again.
I'm the o.p. My feelings towards the job are "mixed". It's going well enough that I'm going to stay but I can see it becoming adventurous down the road.
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