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Learning Together: How a Husband-Wife Team Balanced Family and Careers While Earning Degrees at WGU

Learning Together: How a Husband-Wife Team Balanced Family and Careers While Earning Degrees at WGU

Update: 2025-03-14
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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

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Learning Together: How a Husband-Wife Team Balanced Family and Careers While Earning Degrees at WGU

Learning Together: How a Husband-Wife Team Balanced Family and Careers While Earning Degrees at WGU

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