I always expected that my protege in Viet Nam would never marry. She is very smart but she was and is a wise-ass. In that country wise-as girls do not find husbands. Because she had a patron she was able to stay in school through to the Vietnamese equivalent of MBA and along the way she met the sort of man who does not find a wife. He would be termed an Asperger here but he graduated as an agricultural veterinarian and the two of them make a perfect match. He has near eidetic memory and focuses finely on what he studies so that he is a knowledgeable and skillful vet. She is making a business out of him. They have bought land and she has organized a corporation.
She is a wise-ass but she is not insufferable. She doesn't talk about her accomplishments except to me because she is intent on showing me what my support has bought. She is currently the head of the accounting department at an export/import firm which she went straight to upon graduating. She had been part time for two years.