What’s dating like in your profession?

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OneViewpoint · Accepted Answer

Anyone ever hear of Sodom and Gomorrah? Private Equity, Hedge Funds, and Investment Banking brings together lots of money and entitled assholes with no reason to restrain themselves from their worst instincts.

Dad is bending his secretary over his desk at 8PM. His third wife is seeing 4 therapists and popping the cork on a bottle of wine every day by 10AM while snacking on antidepressants and fucking her tennis instructor orpool boy. The kids are in boarding schools 2 hours away September through June and then sent to camp for the summers.

Meanwhile the young associates are doing lines of coke in the bathroom at work because they're working 16 hour days. When they go out to clubs they are picking up and fucking strippers, waitresses, airline flight attendants, etc. all hoping to hook up with a young guy on a rocketship ride to wealth and power. More coke mixed with alcohol ensures excellent decision making and who knows how many unplanned pregnancies that need to taken care of quietly.

Managing partners are groping the receptionist. The receptionist then gets fired for reporting him.

There's a LOT of mental illness... narcissism, insecurity, sociopathy, lying cheating, stealing, etc. Literally 80% of them are on some kind of prescription drug for depression and anxiety. Including the wives and kids. You can't comprehend it until you've been on the inside.

ProbablyClueless · Accepted Answer

Horrible to the point of being comical. My professional background is Media and Law.  You can only imagine the joy of trying to form a romantic entanglement with people inclined towards that field.

Puppystarfish23 · Accepted Answer

Omg we're do I get started. Extremely toxic. I've always work in warehousing and depending age ranges it's very different but all toxic.

Most the young people are all shagging each other and cheating or getting someone pregnant or pregnant themselves fro someone they're not ment to be with.

All the older ones are either chronically single or are divorce more than once.

For myself and the small hand full of regular people just trying to earn some money. They are usually in a long term relationship and just trying to make it by whilst both people are barely seeing each other because of it.

DishLady · Accepted Answer

Awkward. I myself am like a whirling dervish and always moving so if a guy is gonna actually date me he needs to keep up with my schedule. I’d feel guilty dragging an average Joe into that.

Ironically, guys who have the same sort of schedule as I do ALSO feel the same way, so… there you go.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I am an attorney. I am married now and my wife is not a member of my profession. When I was dating, I only dated one attorney, and we had a fairly good relationship for two years. We had many mutual friends and acquaintances and we had many common interests. If I was still dating, I wouldn't especially seek other attorneys to date, but that wouldn't dissuade me from dating a girl, either.

Simslover92 · Answer

Most are married or in serious relationships in my profession.

Avicenna · Answer

I don’t try to date women in my current profession (accounting).

Xoxocutekitty · Answer

As a female secretary, honestly the world is kind of our oyster when dating. Obviously, we rarely date within the profession, but it's the kind of job that has regular hours, is low stakes, and is relatively low stress (assuming your boss is decent).

While we're not top earners, a lot of men like the non-compete clause built in to this career choice. Even as an Executive Assistant (aka secretary level 4), it's still fairly low in the white collar corporate heircharchy. Sacrifices (childcare, getting home early to cook dinner, other life appointments that have to happen during standard business hours etc) come fairly naturally and our employers are usually accommodating.

Tarifa · Answer

Working freelance and mostly all by myself, there's zero chance of dating.

When I did work in another environment, involving office work or travelling between offices, there was never any clear dating, but you got to know people and a certain degree of flirting was present under the surface.

Zack-Bann · Answer

My original field was IT it was a sausage fest
But now I work in strategic transformation consulting
Ngl sometimes I wonder about the recruiters biases because I’m surrounded by baddies all the time

Needless to say office romance is pretty common

Often kept private but if you know you know

petitedollbabee · Answer

Can’t speak from personal experience as I don’t “screw the crew”, but usually very messy from what I’ve seen. I work in the mental health field and the workers themselves have their own mental health issues and addictions that mess up relationships..

MannMitAntworten · Answer

I know a few couples who meet one another in our industry. However, it is largely an older married male crowd of which most are Jewish or Latin or both. Which if you are neither and meet a single in that demographic it is likely to remain business only.

On_cloud_wine · Answer

Let’s just say that there’s a lotta sexual energy in the air and a lot of people in heat in the restaurant industry

Levin · Answer

Most are seriously overweight or otherwise do not take care of themselves. Brushing and flossing is a novelty.

And annoyingly there's one girl in my work who is probably one of the most attractive women I've seen.

naartjie · Answer

In the meat works at a slaughterhouse.
Horrific. I’d honestly say about 90% of people there are cheating on their significant others and they brag about it too.
You’ll be the prettiest one there and the women all HATE you and the men all say foul things about you.
Not the place I’ll be at for much longer.
If you have someone who works in the meat works, I feel bad for you.

NoDecision · Answer

Mostly nonexistent as I work 6 days a week and only have Sunday to do much around the house, such as cleaning, washing clothes, and planning out the next week.😝

molonski2 · Answer

In my past profession ( Property , New homes , investment) there were a literal plethora of opportunities, it attracts these kind of people , that's how it is , they like to play and party and look it's good fun , wears you out a bit after 25 years , but when I first started.. Wow ! I loved it.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

Non existent since it’s 99.9% women.  I am happily married.  when younger I went on online dating and found my first husband.  second I found on gag.

Anonymous · Answer

I work in retail along with other young adults and teenagers. And oh boy. Most of these people date more than they actually do their job, lol. Including but not limited going to the bathroom at work to do "stuff" in there. You know what stuff. Lol.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Well, I don't know any single people, so something must be going right.

RedInnocent69 · Answer

Within the same profession is a mixed bag. On one hand they’ll understand your challenges. On the other, it narrows your perspective and you can’t really separate work from personal

Anonymous · Answer

most are married in my profession but there's always badge bunnies around.

MikeTheBartender · Answer

Bartending... Sort of like an orgy of the same people rotating in and out, when I got more info business I'm a big big fan of never mix business with pleasure... Mostly ;)

DrPepper12 · Answer

Well for one you can't date clients by law... And a good law it is!!!  That said teachers are a bunch of FREAKS with each other* *Not elementary teachers. Mostly female & boring AF

Twalli · Answer

Completely separate. We work from home on computers.

TrevorPhilips79 · Answer

None existing plus I work at high school so it wouldn’t go good. I be dead or worst.

bolverk · Answer

Dating inside my Profession, not very likely unless I happened to be Gay, as there are very few women in Heavy/Marine Engineering.

beenherebefore · Answer

It can be hard considering that traveling is part of my job.

Phoenix98 · Answer

I don't know lol I'm a manual laborer most people I work with are other guys.

Geo1970 · Answer

Plenty of eye contact!!! But unfortunately it’s pretty much rooted to that specific area.

RavVid · Answer

Relatively few jobs jobs in my speciality so no way I will confuse private and work lives

Daphne98 · Answer

Most are immature partiers. I’m passed that don’t get wrong I like going out to bars to.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

My profession is unrelated to dating. I keep both separated.

exitseven · Answer

Since IT is a mostly make oriented profession I imagine that it is pretty dismal.

fivebyfour · Answer

It would be pretty cool if I was interested in dating, can't be bothered atm,,,

msc545 · Answer

In my profession everybody is either too busy or too much asleep from exhaustion to have sex.

katiesmuff · Answer

Not much of an issue at all!

Sun_Kim-Ai · Answer

Risky, since I am a politician.

TallAnon · Answer

I've noticed most programmers have foreign girlfriends 🤣 Import, bit weird

blackeagle007 · Answer

Independent contractor here. I work alone.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

Almost impossible

Anonymous · Answer

I don't know, I never had a date.

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