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Professions you would never date after working with them

692 replies

Ettubrutus · 09/03/2024 13:27

I’ll start - surgeons.

One of them told me his wife was a GP -“because only one of us (him) could have a proper career”

Also - the overriding narrative that every female who complained about their outcome or consultation had “mental health issues”. They just couldn’t conceive that anyone would complain about them.

OP posts:
timetochange1 · 09/03/2024 14:32

Police

PleaseBeHappier · 09/03/2024 14:33

MerlinsButler · 09/03/2024 14:24

Grin ok this one wins!

Oh I've got more! Shagged a paramedic once. Wouldn't give him a 10...

... but I'd give him a 999

MagnoliatheMagnificent · 09/03/2024 14:34

My DH is retired police, some of the stories!! My ex is a serving police officer and really not very nice so I agree - police, not good!
Likewise surgeons, very much a culture of casual sex in my experience, no thanks.

PleaseBeHappier · 09/03/2024 14:34

A surgeon just wouldn't cut it for me

PleaseBeHappier · 09/03/2024 14:36

I wouldn't date a zookeeper either, he suggested a first date at his place of work.

I was like mate, are you having a giraffe?

PleaseBeHappier · 09/03/2024 14:37

That accountant was a right bastard too. Very calculating

Itslegitimatesalvage · 09/03/2024 14:39

Anyone in the military. I spent years staying in military bases while doing scientific work around the world and the cheating…. Everywhere. They all have girlfriends around the base and wives at home, all of them. Every military wife I ever met would say, “oh, no my husband.” But it was. It always was their husband. Because they all do it.

Lanesdown · 09/03/2024 14:39

Prison officer or anyone that works a shift pattern.

GreenEyedMonsterMunch · 09/03/2024 14:39

Taxi man
Door staff in bars/clubs.

The amount of creeping on attractive women is shocking and most of the ones I've encountered have partners at home probably thinking they're 'just at work' when in reality they're using their jobs to try get off with the customers.

LiterallyOnFire · 09/03/2024 14:40

BeaRF75 · 09/03/2024 13:51

Let's just wheel out a load of stereotypes shall we.... I am close to at least two of the professionals mentioned here (and their spouses) and can confidently say that I see no reason not to marry them. Some individuals may not be likeable, but you can't assume that a whole profession are exactly the same.

You see a side of things at work that you don't see socially, though. I think that's the point.

I wouldn't date police either, not because I think they are all the worst type of cop, but because I've met enough that are.

HoneyWogan · 09/03/2024 14:43

One of them told me his wife was a GP -“because only one of us (him) could have a proper career”

To be fair, if he's openly admitting that he has a wife, he's probably not somebody you want to consider dating...

LiterallyOnFire · 09/03/2024 14:45

Idontwannawaitinvain · 09/03/2024 14:22

One idiot of a surgeon doesn't mean they are all the same, that's prejudiced

Pre judging does make dating easier , and nobody can take you to tribunal for discriminatory dating practices. Grin

Berlinlover · 09/03/2024 14:45

Police Officer
Driving Instructor

veryangrymot · 09/03/2024 14:46

I have lived in 2 countries and can very assuredly say: police officers. 99.99% cheaters.

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doitwithlove · 09/03/2024 14:50

Pilot
Lawyer
Postman - exh
Fireman - current husband
DJ - exh
Paramedic
Butcher
Police - ex fwb

Theworldismadness · 09/03/2024 14:51

BeretInParis · 09/03/2024 14:24

A Labour politician. They probably wouldn't want to date me either; they don't know what a woman is in the first place.

Don't be rediculous

BroughttoyoubyBerocca · 09/03/2024 14:51

Police, commercial pilot and military if they require moving around/being away, professional footballer, pop star

OrangeySmorangy · 09/03/2024 14:52

Police. Absolutely never ever again

Theworldismadness · 09/03/2024 14:52

There are good and bad in all professions so it wouldn't influence my decision.

WildRosesForCathy · 09/03/2024 14:53

@PleaseBeHappier 👏 👏 👏

PleaseBeHappier · 09/03/2024 14:55

I would also never date a pilot again. He said I was a plane jane

PleaseBeHappier · 09/03/2024 14:56

Tradesmen are all absolute tools

Theworldismadness · 09/03/2024 14:58

veryangrymot · 09/03/2024 14:46

I have lived in 2 countries and can very assuredly say: police officers. 99.99% cheaters.

Love a way over the top made up statistic

MargaritaSenorita · 09/03/2024 14:59

Lead singer/guitarist. Women literally throw themselves at their hot, sweaty post-concert bodies. I live with one. I trust him and am secure in the relationship but think if I was 20 years younger, I wouldn't have been able to cope with it.

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