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Being more highly educated may or may not correlate to higher paying jobs. It really depends on what one's profession is. The auto mechanic I dated, who had a two-year trade school certification and various additional professional certs made bank compared to what I made in print journalism OR education, and I went to school longer than he did. People do make their career choices based on criteria involving more than just the paycheck, in various cases.
I noticed this too and I think could be discouraging for some people to come forth and admit they've been with SO's that had lower paying or unremarkable jobs after seeing so many highly educated and upper level professional positions. I agree with monument us that the occupation itself isn't what makes a person better or worse in ttheir regard to the quality of the person.
I've had a few SO's but will only comment on the current......she's an LPN. There's been an uptick lately at her job with internal political drama and she's not happy so I suggested she quit,go back to school and become an RN.
It shouldn't be discouraging. I have a little of both going on in my list a few pages back. I had one with a PhD in Psychology who also had a law degree and he was just awful. I was married to a truck driver and he was also just awful.
The others were ok. My sweetie is blue collar and i love him just the way he is! While I do not know the income of the scientist I dated, amongst the others, my current SO has had the highest income. That doesn't really matter to me, because neither does money.
I noticed this too and I think could be discouraging for some people to come forth and admit they've been with SO's that had lower paying or unremarkable jobs after seeing so many highly educated and upper level professional positions. I agree with monument us that the occupation itself isn't what makes a person better or worse in ttheir regard to the quality of the person.
I've had a few SO's but will only comment on the current......she's an LPN. There's been an uptick lately at her job with internal political drama and she's not happy so I suggested she quit,go back to school and become an RN.
Eh. The only two guys I've seriously dated were in low paying retail positions with no formal education. I've never seriously dated anyone who was 'educated', or even graduated from college. Although, I'm friends with men who are engineers, lawyers, doctors and I'm going to dinner tomorrow night with a guy friend who is a VP at an insurance company. Dudes love being friends with me, but no dating
One model, one computer IT sales guy, one perpetual student who is now a high school science teacher (that would be my ex-husband), and the rest were assorted military or law enforcement, including Feds.
I noticed this too and I think could be discouraging for some people to come forth and admit they've been with SO's that had lower paying or unremarkable jobs after seeing so many highly educated and upper level professional positions. I agree with monument us that the occupation itself isn't what makes a person better or worse in ttheir regard to the quality of the person.
I've had a few SO's but will only comment on the current......she's an LPN. There's been an uptick lately at her job with internal political drama and she's not happy so I suggested she quit,go back to school and become an RN.
I've learned that degrees/education, nor a title/specific career is an indicator of intelligence, income/net worth or personality.
people may not gravitate to certain partners but actually thats who they are around often enough to end up dating
Exactly.
A woman in the DC area who has never been approached by military or G men either looks like a hippie, has never been to a bar downtown, or has a face like a bulldog, because sooner or later you're going to come across one or the other. Whether you go out with them when they ask is up to you, but in an area so saturated, expecting to avoid them is like going to happy hour on Chambers Street in New York and expecting not to run into someone in finance.
LOL... I was about to respond to you (nicely) that I have the complete opposite view. Glad you corrected that...
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