Jill and Wayne Taylor are celebrating their eighth wedding ceremony anniversary this Valentine’s Day. Each lecturers within the Enterprise Division at Lowell Excessive Faculty in Lowell, Massachusetts and customers of NGPF sources, they shared their story of going from colleagues to dedicated couple.
Affectionately referred to as Jay Tay and Means Tay, their relationship turned official in July 2016 and had been married February 14, 2017 following a 10-day engagement.
“’When , ,’ is the recommendation I’d give to different {couples},” says Wayne. “I didn’t actually know what that meant till I met Jill.”
How It All Started
The 2 first met precisely 10 years in the past. “I interviewed Wayne for a long-term substitute educating place at Lowell Excessive in the course of the college 12 months – February 2015,” recounts Jill.
“Wayne was not our first choice for the place, however as destiny or luck would have it, the opposite candidate declined the provide because the place was solely to complete the college 12 months.”
Wayne was capable of interview once more in June and was employed full-time that fall.
Separate Paths to a Educating Profession
Whereas each Jill and Wayne have been all for finance for a very long time, their journeys to changing into a trainer are fairly completely different.
Jill has taught Private Finance over the course of her 33 years in enterprise training.
Wayne graduated from Bentley College with a B.S. in Finance and labored within the retirement recordkeeping trade for 12.5 years. He then went on to personal his personal enterprise within the handyman trade for greater than 4 years and ceaselessly used his monetary background earlier than coming into training.
Higher Collectively
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“I’ve change into a greater trainer having Wayne to debate not solely the challenges of a faculty day and college students, however creating curriculum and dealing collectively to bounce questions off of one another,” says Jill.
“We will talk about college or lesson plans and we come at it from completely different views,” provides Wayne. “Jill comes from a tutorial background and I come from an trade background, which permits for excellent conversations.”
They’ll solely recall one time over their 10 years educating that that they had a “public show of variations.” The supply of the argument? A grading rubric.
Past serving to one another develop as lecturers, working collectively makes issues extra enjoyable.
“Jill has at all times dressed up for the vacations and I used to be by no means one for these issues,” says Wayne. “Properly I’m now. We’re recognized within the college for our outfits for each vacation.”
Making use of Private Finance in Partnership
“As each of us are close to retirement age, we undoubtedly have discovered a lot working collectively and utilizing the sources from NGPF have opened our eyes to actually being prepared for retirement,” says Jill.
They put into follow the identical classes they cross on to their college students.
“We will use what we’ve got discovered and educate in private finance to make use of ourselves,” says Wayne. “I solely want I had this recommendation after I was in highschool and used it.”
Sporting a Image of Love
“Contemplating we met ‘later’ in life, we’ve got matching tattoos we acquired in January 2021, because it was a ‘first’ neither of us had achieved earlier than,” says Jill.
Much like their wedding ceremony cake, Jill says it depicts a crown and soccer ball as a result of, “I’m the queen and Wayne is the soccer nut!”
“Jill has the tattoo on her left arm and I’ve it on my proper arm so once we maintain palms they’re related,” says Wayne. “I do know it’s corny.”
To have fun their anniversary (and Valentine’s Day), the 2 might be eating out tonight on the place they acquired engaged and married. Congratulations, Jill and Wayne!
