hi, i'm a 19 year old (female) college sophomore (hehe, you've got one of each right now) at the university of memphis here in shitty tennessee.
i'm majoring in hospitality and resort management, which is essentially training me to manage a hotel or timeshare. i will even take a class or two in managing restaurants. the cool thing about my college and my major is that the founder of holiday inn donated the money to build one on campus, so once i eventually wade through all my business crap first, i'll get to take classes at a hotel!
what kind of career do you expect for yourself in the future?: i hope to be a manager at a timeshare in florida, it'll be loads of fun.
for your partner?: it all depends on whenever he decides on what he wants to do, lol. he's not started college yet, but he's deciding what he wants to do before he goes to college, unlike his brother who's been in college long enough to get a bachelor's but is still undecided.
do you expect to have children?: child, yes.
who will care for the children and who will be the main breadwinner, or will these tasks be equally shared?: it'll probably be my husband, because that's just a fact of life. unless i become a ceo of some major hotel and he's fryboy at mcdonald's, he'll probably make more than me.
when in life do you hope to start a family?: definitely not until we're both out of college and are financially secure. we only want to have one child, so we want to make sure we can raise her in a good environment where no one's bitter because someone had to give up something because now we had three mouths to feed or something.
do you plan on you or your spouse to cut back on work to make once children are born?: yes, but by choice. when my mom went on maternity leave, she quit, and didn't go back to work until i was a couple years old, and only went to work part-time, eventually going to work full-time as i got more used to day care and babysitters. i think because of that i'm super close to my mom and totally thank her for doing that, because i consider her my best friend. i plan on doing the same with my daughter. i'll go back to work part-time after a while, and have her used to day care before it's time for her to go to school, so she won't be crying for mommy the first day of kindergarten like some of the other kids.
do you (or your spouse) plan on going back to work full-time once the children reach a certain age?: yep. unless my husband becomes that rich ceo, i'll have to. i'd rather have us both working full-time and living comfortably (meaning we can pay all our bills on time, and still have some money left over to plan for college funds, retirement funds, etc.) than to have me be a stay-at-home mom or me working part-time and us barely squeaking by.