A Finance Educator Love Story

Jill and Wayne Taylor are celebrating their eighth marriage ceremony anniversary this Valentine’s Day. Each lecturers within the Enterprise Division at Lowell Excessive Faculty in Lowell, Massachusetts and customers of NGPF assets, they shared their story of going from colleagues to dedicated couple.

Affectionately referred to as Jay Tay and Method Tay, their relationship grew to become official in July 2016 and have been married February 14, 2017 following a 10-day engagement.

“’When you recognize, you recognize,’ 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 instructing place at Lowell Excessive in the course of the college yr – 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 for the reason that place was solely to complete the college yr.”

Wayne was capable of interview once more in June and was employed full-time that fall. 

Separate Paths to a Instructing Profession

Whereas each Jill and Wayne have been enthusiastic about finance for a very long time, their journeys to changing into a instructor are fairly totally different.

Jill has taught Private Finance over the course of her 33 years in enterprise schooling.

Wayne graduated from Bentley College with a B.S. in Finance and labored within the retirement recordkeeping business for 12.5 years. He then went on to personal his personal enterprise within the handyman business for greater than 4 years and continuously used his monetary background earlier than getting into schooling.

Higher Collectively

“I’ve change into a greater instructor having Wayne to debate not solely the challenges of a faculty day and college students, however growing curriculum and dealing collectively to bounce questions off of one another,” says Jill.

“We will focus on college or lesson plans and we come at it from totally different views,” provides Wayne. “Jill comes from an instructional background and I come from an business background, which permits for nice conversations.”

They’ll solely recall one time over their 10 years instructing that they’d 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 all the time dressed up for the vacations and I used to be by no means one for these issues,” says Wayne. “Effectively 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 realized a lot working collectively and utilizing the assets from NGPF have opened our eyes to essentially being prepared for retirement,” says Jill.

They put into follow the identical classes they move on to their college students.

“We will use what now we have realized and train 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, now we have matching tattoos we acquired in January 2021, because it was a ‘first’ neither of us had completed earlier than,” says Jill.

Just like their marriage 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 after we maintain palms they’re linked,” says Wayne. “I do know it’s corny.”

To have fun their anniversary (and Valentine’s Day), the 2 shall be eating out tonight on the place they acquired engaged and married. Congratulations, Jill and Wayne!