lots of great points....i still believe that about 80% of women, if given the op, would quit their jobs and stay home with kids. The DINK setup is the way to go if you can, but women get so much mommy guilt about working when they have kids that their hormones tell them to force dad to get a better job. Only about 10-20% of women are truly driven professionally....and those are the hard ones to deal with because half of those are out to prove something for their gender or are extreme self centered or both, beeochs.
Again i reiterate, those ideal professional types are almost nil after a certain age. Remember, they have the pick of whatever THEY want and they are USED to getting what they want.
You might have to go down the age ladder; you're kind of up $h! creek otherwise. go back to school and 'recruit' a younger lass, one with ambition and lots of her own baby making years left. Someone with earning potential to prop YOU up later in life. Someone who's rack looks tremendous at the company xmas party in the obligatory black dress. Someone who has enough self confidence to not HAVE to be with you.
I see your goal to not settle but the pot to pick from is withering away. Its the classic dilemma, at what point do we all give in and commit to something less complete than our ideal? Or is that 'point' just a realization that your affection for someone else is stronger than your desire to get 'more'? Its the point when the whole outweighs the sum of its parts, and you go on faith. Just hope Faith has a 36D rack and pulls in six figures.
To circle it back around to haircutters.....so then why not date a hot nymph slightly psychotic stylist, just for a fun mindless relationship. i hear a lot of chicks who cut hair PUT OUT and are half psycho.