What job would make you not date a person? (girlfriend, girls, spouses)

[Bungalove]

Slaughter house worker. I know someone has to do it, but I couldn't be with them.

[Sonic_Spork]

Any job that involves illegal activity.
And I would prefer to avoid military, and anyone who does not have stability (they bounce from one thing to another constantly and can't seem to keep a job for long.)

I'm not saying that there is anything objectively wrong with soldiers or vets, and there can be perks to being married to one, but I am personally more than a little traumatized by some of the stuff I dealt with, with one in my past. So even when I dated a guy who was a veteran and he displayed a few of the mannerisms or traits, it made me anxious. I would just rather...not. Given that a big part of the problem for me was the "hyper vigilance" or just how he seemed on alert for danger when we were trying to have a nice stroll together in a pretty safe area...that mindset that a threat could leap out of anywhere at any moment, that's what I don't feel comfortable dealing with. I suspect that, on top of other unpleasant things I've heard police officers say when they are off duty, that's probably part of their mindset as well.

I prefer a non-violent partner.

I do not need a protector.

[usayit]

I don't date a job, I date a person.

In other words... it depends.

I wouldn't date an obvious workaholic of any employment. Similarly, some jobs demand a particular lifestyle and in my view its basically being at work all the time.

[Forever Blue]

Originally Posted by foxyknoxy

For me:

Police officer
Psychiatrist
Gynecologist
Tattoo artist

You?

Originally Posted by Nut4sweets

Policeman
ER doctor
Lawyer
Fireman
Car salesman
Any profession requires working more than 60 hours a week and frequent travel

Originally Posted by Mink57

Porn star.

^ These are all good ones in my book too. Now the Psychiatrist might be alright, just as long as he doesn't start analyzing ME & tryign to change me. Lawyers might be alright too.

ALSO,

Truck driver, especially cross country ones
Sanitation workers, like the ones who clean out the porta-pottys
Mortician
Bartender


Ha, when we're all done, there won't hardly be any jobs left!

[chiluvr1228]

Originally Posted by Bungalove

Slaughter house worker. I know someone has to do it, but I couldn't be with them.

^^ Definitely this ^^.

I've dated cops before but I don't think I would again. They don't seem to be romantic and they see too much of the bad things in this world.

Along with not dating a slaughter house worker would be a politician or someone who worked with infectious diseases like a Dr. Fauci type.

[Seija]

I would rule out people in the following industries, their satellite industries, and their professional advocates largely because there would be a clash of values:

Meat
Firearms
Hunting
Religion
Cannabis
Defense, with the possible exception of military people. I have dated US military people before, but I would not date someone who designed bombs for a living.

I would mostly avoid the following men because of the groupie effect, but it would be a case-by-case basis:

Musicians
Actors
Athletes
Pilots
Nightlife workers--bartenders, DJs, club owners

I would be an unlikely match for the following:

Culinary (unless vegetarian)
Politicians and their staff (or at least half of them)
Law enforcement

I would love to know why some folks wouldn't date certain professions.

[Forever Blue]

Originally Posted by Seija

...I would love to know why some folks wouldn't date certain professions.

So my post is #14. For me personally, I agreed w/ jobs that others said plus added a few of my own as you see below. So here are my reasons below that.

policeman - Mainly too dangerous, you never know when that day will come when they got killed on the job. I also heard a lot of them cheat like how women like the whole "men in uniform" thing. A friend of my mom's used to work in a police station & saw it all.

Originally Posted by foxyknoxy

For me:

Police officer
Psychiatrist
Gynecologist
Tattoo artist

You?

Originally Posted by Nut4sweets

Policeman
ER doctor
Lawyer
Fireman
Car salesman
Any profession requires working more than 60 hours a week and frequent travel

Originally Posted by Forever Blue

^ These are all good ones in my book too. Now the Psychiatrist might be alright, just as long as he doesn't start analyzing ME & tryign to change me. Lawyers might be alright too.

ALSO,

Truck driver, especially cross country ones
Sanitation workers, like the ones who clean out the porta-pottys
Mortician
Bartender


Ha, when we're all done, there won't hardly be any jobs left!

fireman - almost the similar reasons as for police

gynecologist - Eh, don't want my man looking at that part of the female anatomy all day long...you know what I'm talking about.

tattoo artist - Eh, not stable money-wise plus gets way to close to strangers & other females to do the job.

ER Dr - Nice money, but I'd never see him working all the time

truck driver - too much being alone on the road (or who knows if he'll really be alone) & not seeing him, so God knows what he's doing

sanitation workers - too disgusting dealing w/ fecal matter, etc.

mortician - wouldn't want a partner who always sees death all the time

bartender - I don't drink, smoke, etc., so prefer my partner not to have a job in that industry

[TaoistDude]

I wouldn't date anyone who is away from home a lot (say, more than a night a week), or is engaged in a dangerous profession where there is a real chance that they might not come home from work some day. I also would not date someone whose profession conflicts with my values and beliefs, or would lessen my privacy.

[usayit]

Poor Police officers... the dating pool must be small.

[Sassybluesy]

I'm married (I feel the need to insert that qualifier sometimes) but if I were in the dating field again...I'd probably not date a preacher. A preacher's wife has to be a role model to the congregation, and I don't think I'd be a very good role model.