Professions you would never date after working with them

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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.

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I've worked for 2, and it wasn't the same for me.

Police. I’ve only ever met one who wasn’t an absolute arsehole. And he’s my best mate. All the others (especially the one I’m related to) are some of the worst human beings I’ve had the misfortune to spend time with.

Having worked with them - creatives who see themselves as edgelords, they tend to be utter wankers as well as entitled pricks who try it on with everyone and always cheat on their SO.

Comics - usually have an alcohol addiction, tend to be bitter, dysfunctional and misogynistic.

Animators are weird, have a dark personality and imagination and are usually craycray - the drummers of the creative industry.

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Not worked with them but have friends that do the job and or dated them also I'm one of the and wouldn't recommend dating me

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Actually any job with long hours, unpredictable hours, or working away lots.

Funny you say that re creatives, my DB is one. And I worked with architects for about 7 years and what you say is definitely the case! I did date one and had the opportunity to date more but somehow they were just never me… (got off with a few though!).

In my friendship group, I know six police officers. Every one bar one has cheated on their spouse, left partners for colleagues, give / receive frequent BJs in patrol cars, bordering on racist, snort coke, f and blind, just generally seem fairly immoral and so far from upstanding as you can get. And they are not all men, three men / three women.

Sweeping - but successful and musicians are often pretty egocentric and also insecure. Film sets and tours also ripe for infidelity.

Barristers and KCs often workaholics who can never switch off. Money can be brilliant but the workload is so intense they’re often totally checked out of family life…

Ooh yeah I'll add Pro footballers to that. I know someone who moves in those social circles and they're messy.

A NDN as a child was a fireman, got very high in his profession. A seriously good looking man too and his wife was punching. Much older than me though. He never cheated as far as I know but I’m sure he had loads of offers.

I have counted at least 46 'votes' for the police on this thread.
I met a female police sergeant and asked if her husband was in the police force, she said she wouldn't touch a police officer with a barge pole never mind have a relationship with one!

ALSO - all the male architects I know are a little bit uptight and quite critical of others. A sense that they always know best.

The doctors I know are all actually lovely, but I’ve come across a few egocentric surgeons in my time!

Surgeons - two in my family - superior dickheads. Both have cheated on spouses (still together)

police - don’t trust them, the dodgy kids at school became police officers

anyone who works away a lot (pilot naturally)

Journalists !

You get some barristers who are complete tossers (worked with them through work) and some who are absolute sweethearts and I became friends with them, through work and barristers parties (very messy). They do tend to find it hard to relax though as workload is intense and the only reason one was more chilled as he was close to retirement and had made most of his money. Divorce/family barrister.

Sorry, police for me too.

Have dated 2 journalists. One is still a good friend and I met him when I was 19 and he was early 30s. Never marriage material for me but he apparently years later said he’d have asked me, but I was too young. I was.

Oh dear.

My wife is a retired Police officer. She is awesome, utterly kind and decent with great ethics and values. I am a Social worker; we worked together for many years, whilst together, in joint protective services, so I saw her work first hand.

What I would say is that I believe that both of our careers have damaged us and jaded our perception of society and risk. Having said that, we acknowledged and talk about this. We also have a happy family life and lovely friends.

Many of the previous posts are generalising and stereotyping, although of course you are all entitled to your opinions.

You can’t say that about all architects! But it’s partly true re the uptight thing .

The thing about architects is they train for 7 years, which is a long time. I once met one who retrained for the exact same 7 years (so 14 total) to do interior design.

So? Most of the ones I have worked with , which was the actual question, I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. There is such a thing as a work culture, and pretending otherwise is very naive.

My cousin is married to a pro-footballer, well he retired about 20 years ago now but while he's had his issues, mostly alcoholism (he is sober now) and the general restrictions and problems of being a footballer he wasn't unfaithful, there are some players who do manage to keep it in their shorts but a good amount of them do seem to cheat.

I think the biggest issue is how restrictive their career makes your life and then what happens when their career ends, lots of players end up divorced when they retire.

You’ve got your opinion and we’ve got ours. I’m not even going to go down the Wayne Couzens route but doesn’t surprise me and can name a few nutty police officers I’ve known of, 1 was fired, the ex SO of one of my best friends.

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