In the tradition of Oprah's last page of O Magazine, I know for sure that after reading the New York Times society page for many years, if you're a third grade teacher in New York and surrounds, you will marry an investment banker or lawyer. Ladies looking for stay-at-home mom positions, put "grade school teacher" on your eharmony, jdate, or Match.com postings and you're in. The other way couples meet is in college. There are lots of Harvard grades, both magna cum laude, starting their young lives together.
I justify reading the society page because I look for interesting jobs. Admittedly, my eyes glaze over when I see "investment banker" and "lawyer." Obviously I missed my calling as a stay-at-home mom.
By far the most interesting couple are Anjali and Chuck. Anjali's father is a photojournalist living in Paris. Great job. Great city. Her mother sells real estate. Well, someone has to make a living. Chuck's mom is a life coach. (Most moms on the society pages are on the board of charities, social workers, therapists or teachers. Of course, as I'm looking up Mother jobs to make my case, I'm finding all the exceptions to the rules: the parents that worked in tape recording and motorcycle factories in the Ukraine, and the mother retired as executive director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies in New York.)
Chuck studied everything East Asian (Princeton, Rutgers, Swarthmore) and Anjali edits books for Vintage after graduating from Brown.
While in Taiwan finishing his dissertation, Chuck wooed Anjali by narrating a tape of the sounds he recorded of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, Swallows baseball game, and gaming parlor.
Isn't it romantic?
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