Should occupation matter?
If you have spent any time at all on the Atlanta dating scene, you’ve heard the following countless times: “What do you do?” which is usually followed by, “Where did you go to school?” Casual conversations can go from innocent flirting to archaeological dig for information in 60 seconds!
Everyone has their own angle to asking the career or occupation question. A lot of people believe that what a person does for a living says a lot about their character, personality….and bank account.
This is one of the reasons one of my guy friends tell women that he runs a non-profit when he meets them. This is only partly true because he actually runs the family business and runs the non-profit on the side. He says it is two-fold: It weeds out overly pretentious women who are only out to land wealthy men. It appeals to women who share similar interests and outlook.
I don’t know if this has worked well for him or not, but I do think about how much occupation matters – or does not matter – to a lot of us. Do you think it should?
What can you really tell about a person’s job, career, or career aspirations? When do you ask the person you are interested in dating or pursuing what they do for a living?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Exiled!
January 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
come out
disco
January 19th, 2012
4:10 pm
ex –I made the comment another day that brothers that come up short shouldn’t get undressed in the light and try to walk across the room like they swanging. they need to get undressed and hide under the covers. I think my exact words were they need to try to sneak that up on somebody.
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:12 pm
although I’ve known chics that go into the bathroom then come our after flicking that light switch off first
I thought that only happened in the movies. “Let me go slip into something more coooooomfortable rrrrrrrrr”. Yeah right. lol
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:13 pm
The bad thing about the male deficiency is that there really isn’t too much they can do about it. Yeah you see those adds that make you ‘bigger & better’ but do we really know anyone that’s ACTUALLY gone through that. I wouldn’t trust it if I were a dude.
Into the Light
January 19th, 2012
4:15 pm
And yet….some of them still strut around like they don’t know they got the shortest kabob on the grill. smh….
disco
January 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
slim – I do know some self conscious types who do the bathroom undress thing.
itl – they know but they also know better than to advertise it. I’m guessing most of them are banking on the sympathy booty or the fact that most chicks won’t back out upon discovery.
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:19 pm
I meant ads not adds lol
they don’t know they got the shortest kabob on the grill OMG
Leggs
January 19th, 2012
4:19 pm
“…but before it gets to the point where we might do it you need to show it to me.” ~ Really??? How does that work?
Disco – hey JuneBug, whatcha working with over there.
JB – don’t worry about it, I’ll treat you right.
Disco – hold on there buddy, I need to see this you take pride in
JB – Cool, (zipping down pants), and plop
Disco – hold on JuneBug, I need to get my glasses….
(Disco makes excuse saying she needs to go to store and get some milk, never to return)…
kimmie
January 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
shortest kabob on the grill
Sorry, but I had to laugh!
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
ITL – Now I’m not going to be able to look at grilling the same anymore…that’s messed up because I love when the beau grills me some nice weenies. I’ll have to be sure to say, babe, can you pass me that nice thick one on the end and not the one that broke in half.
disco
January 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
y’all I am at work. can you warn me before you make me laugh like that? and junebug? have mercy.
kimmie
January 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
Leggs –
kimmie
January 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
Yep, and Short Kabob will be the very one complaining cause Suzie was really a B cup under that padded D!! Just be glad somebody took up time with you, Shorty!
Exiled!
January 19th, 2012
4:26 pm
My commiserations ITL if u have seen a lot of that!
go mandingo, u might adopt the mickydee theme
I’m luving it!
Into the Light
January 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
Po’ ole Junebug.
Just be glad somebody took up time with you, Shorty!
Worth repeating. Listen to Kimmie, Shorty K, she speaks the truth.
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:29 pm
Leggs – OMG, I was reading your skit as I was making a phone call. As I was trying to say Preowned, read the word ‘plop’ and almost ended up saying penis. Then my mind went blank and I could feel a laughing spell coming on. To the corner I go for a brief timeout
Leggs
January 19th, 2012
4:37 pm
“grills me some nice weenies” – ummm, that doesn’ sound good either!!
Into the Light
January 19th, 2012
4:39 pm
Yes it does, Leggs. I love grilled weenies. I like mine just one step shy of cremated, solid black on the outside!
Into the Light
January 19th, 2012
4:40 pm
with mustard and onions.
Exiled!
January 19th, 2012
4:40 pm
won’t back out upon discovery!
I like that Disco….
(imagining her round surface)
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:41 pm
Ya win some, ya lose some
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:44 pm
Leggs – Well with ITL’s last post, THAT doesn’t sound any better either
-one step shy of cremated, solid black on the outside 
Leggs
January 19th, 2012
4:52 pm
@ITL ~ here, in Blogsville, weenies are the same as Penis
So, grilled weenies really do not sound good and now you like yours cremated, coated in black….I am on the floor!!!
Leggs
January 19th, 2012
4:52 pm
@ITL ~ here, in Blogsville, weenies are the same as Penis
So, grilled weenies really do not sound good and now you like yours cremated, coated in black….I am on the floor!!!
Leggs
January 19th, 2012
4:54 pm
WOW, been a long time since I had a double post.
Into the Light
January 19th, 2012
4:55 pm
LOL. I am hollering! I thought we were really talking about grilling hot dogs (which I do love blackened and crispy!)
ITL now apologizing to all the blog men for any pain and anguish, real or imagined, the cremated, black-coated weenie may have caused.
SlimNu
January 19th, 2012
4:57 pm
ITL – Although I knew you were really talking about grilled hot dogs, I couldn’t help but to think you like your penis ASHY BLACK or BLUE BLACK
Leggs
January 19th, 2012
4:58 pm
@ITL ~ we knew you were talking about grilling hot dogs, I wasn’t (lol)….
A hard, crispy blackened weenie…
Willie Dynamite
January 19th, 2012
4:59 pm
ITL- Coated in black hunh.
Willie Dynamite
January 19th, 2012
5:03 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to your moniker now. J/k j/k
Purple
January 19th, 2012
5:07 pm
Shhhh there is never any doubt here. I will whip it out quickly if there is a question. “I call him mini me!” lol
How can ladies count ceiling tile with her face in the pillow or headboard?
Exiled!
January 19th, 2012
5:10 pm
To ur question Purp-head in pillow?
ITL has 2 mirrors on her headboard!
Purple
January 19th, 2012
5:16 pm
wowzers those mirrors would be cracked
Into the Light
January 19th, 2012
5:18 pm
LOL. Y’all have me cracking up over here.
@Purp: gee, thanks. I know I don’t look my best when I wake up, but I’ve never cracked a mirror.
Purple
January 19th, 2012
5:34 pm
lmao