How have the courts in B.C. considered the case of a husband who completed high school and obtained a diploma in forestry?

In Black v. Black, [1996] B.C.J. No. 1551 (QL)(S.C.) the parties began cohabiting in their early 20’s in 1970, which culminated in a 20-year marriage. The husband completed high school and obtained a two-year diploma in forestry in 1971, and secured employment in the forestry industry for the duration of the marriage and thereafter. In the early years of the marriage the wife was a clerk in a pharmacy and both a teller and accounting clerk at a bank. The wife left the workforce in 1982 when her first child was born and returned to the workforce outside the home 12 years later when she began part-time employment in a school cafeteria. The wife lived in the family home with the parties’ two children, aged 13 and 14. The court noted at para. 4: ... [The wife] stated she did not have any specific career plan, she simply wanted to have a family and to earn money to help her family. The court in Black concluded that the wife needed assistance in becoming economically independent and self-sufficient and reapportioned 80% of the family home in favour of the wife.