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Learning Together: How a Husband-Wife Team Balanced Family and Careers While Earning Degrees at WGU
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Anna and Chris Decker share their inspiring journey of completing WGU degrees together while raising two small children and working full-time jobs. Their competitive spirit, teamwork approach, and unwavering support for each other enabled them to achieve academic success despite numerous challenges.
On this episode you’ll learn how the Deckers:
• Balanced parenting duties while taking turns studying and sitting for exams
• Used late nights and time between infant duties to complete coursework
• Leveraged employer benefits to make education financially feasible
• Applied newly gained knowledge immediately to their professional roles that led to career promotion
• Discovered new learning techniques that translated to workplace efficiency
Chapters
1. Learning Together: How a Husband-Wife Team Balanced Family and Careers While Earning Degrees at WGU (00:00:00)
2. Introducing the Decker Family (00:00:05)
3. Celebrating Graduation in Orlando (00:02:10)
4. Earning Degrees Together (00:04:45)
5. Motivation for Returning to School (00:11:08)
6. How Degrees Transformed Their Careers (00:15:30)
7. Future Plans and Final Advice (00:19:43)
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