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Just curious, do you have any actual real-world dating experience, or are you holding yourself back based on what you read about what women want in some guy's blog?
Holding myself back because of what I hear, I don't have much dating experience though unfortunately
Its really hard to find an attractive woman without a college degree, like a woman that is 24 or older, the reason why I am hoping to find one without a degree it's because I assume most women with a college degree prefer to date men that have a college degree, and I lack a degree
I am about one term shy of my AA. My first husband doesn't hold a degree (he has quite a few credits from military training and schooling), but is a brilliant guy, intellectually/academically and creatively. My current husband was a mechanical engineering major at a UC system school before dropping out and choosing a different path. He, too, is quite gifted and talented, and has an AA in Liberal Arts.
Now, I have met a variety of people who do not hold advanced degrees, and they are bright and talented individuals. Aside from a few men I have been involved with, the majority had a formal, advanced, education, some with graduate and professional degrees. My deal-breaker criteria was that I must have an intellectual/mental connection with my partner. It's pretty paramount. They needn't necessarily have a graduate degree, but we need to be on the same level, and the majority who fell in this category either possessed a formal education or were extremely intellectually curious and gravitated toward autodidactism (in much the same way I do).
I have always preferred to date men who are not only visibly educated, whether formally or autodidactically, but intellectually curious and open-minded. Simply possessing a degree doesn't mean one is truly educated, and it didn't tell me anything about their intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness. So education alone was not the determining factor for me.
I came across so many poorly written profiles of degree holders when I did online dating. I was often left dismayed and befuddled, wondering how in the world they managed to graduate when basic, rudimentary, knowledge and thinking skills were not visibly present.
I am about one term shy of my AA. My first husband doesn't hold a degree (he has quite a few credits from military training and schooling), but is a brilliant guy, intellectually/academically and creatively. My current husband was a mechanical engineering major at a UC system school before dropping out and choosing a different path. He, too, is quite gifted and talented, and has an AA in Liberal Arts.
Now, I have met a variety of people who do not hold advanced degrees, and they are bright and talented individuals. Aside from a few men I have been involved with, the majority had a formal, advanced, education, some with graduate and professional degrees. My deal-breaker criteria was that I must have an intellectual/mental connection with my partner. It's pretty paramount. They needn't necessarily have a graduate degree, but we need to be on the same level, and the majority who fell in this category either possessed a formal education or were extremely intellectually curious and gravitated toward autodidactism (in much the same way I do).
I have always preferred to date men who are not only visibly educated, whether formally or autodidactically, but intellectually curious and open-minded. Simply possessing a degree doesn't mean one is truly educated, and it didn't tell me anything about their intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness. So education alone was not the determining factor for me.
I came across so many poorly written profiles of degree holders when I did online dating. I was often left dismayed and befuddled, wondering how in the world they managed to graduate when basic, rudimentary, knowledge and thinking skills were not visibly present.
ya because i'm guessing when it comes to people refusing to date someone that has a lower education level than they do, it's usually women refusing to date men that have not reached the same level of education they have
Holding myself back because of what I hear, I don't have much dating experience though unfortunately
So why aren't you out there meeting women and finding out what they're actually like, rather than making a bunch of assumptions that aren't getting you anywhere?
Holding myself back because of what I hear, I don't have much dating experience though unfortunately
Yet another person cowering in fear of actually living his life, and choosing to be paralyzed by other people's choices that have no bearing on his life.
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Micheal Dell, non of them have degrees. You don't think that there are attractive women out there who wouldn't have dated or married them? Get real. A woman saying she wants a man with a degree has nothing to do with wanting an "educated man", Its just another way for women to chase $$$.
In general, yes, women will prefer men with a college degree. Its not just the degree, but its also the "good corporate job" image that they believe comes with it. If twins had identical incomes, but one had a degree and worked in a corporate job, and the other was a plumber, the guy with the clean job would be more attractive to most women.
Lol, the plumber probably makes more money than the "corporate" guy and the plumbers job is not going to get outsourced to some guy in India.
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