...and "the safest job in the world" - as someone wrote here - is also the civil servant job with the highest rate of early retirement and disability. Almost 50% of teachers stop working well before the retirement/pension age. With an increasing trend. The job is indeed secure, but the salary scale also shows what the maximum is - without bonus payments or promotions. I wouldn’t sleep calmly because of that anymore.
Well, at least the promotion and the "maximum" you mentioned are guaranteed to you. Unlike many others - who probably earned around 5k a year ago and maybe even lost their jobs during the Corona crisis. Also a pension guarantee that is set in stone...
So you really have to stay realistic. A civil servant will never ever earn a manager’s salary or similar – of course, it always depends on where the ambitions/priorities lie – however, in my opinion, it is the safest job in the world --> as the saying goes about goods --> Best cost/performance ratio - that’s exactly how I see the civil servant job.
Precisely for this reason, 2 civil servants don’t necessarily have to pay off the loan by retirement age, since afterwards substantial funds continue to flow in, which a normal employee can only dream of. So, an individual assessment applies here – which probably does not apply to many people here – thus one should differentiate carefully and maybe also advise the original poster on other matters, as one would do with a “completely normal” couple with this income.