Would you date a binman?

[TrishM80]

Inspired by another thread about being a binman as a career.

You meet a guy on a night out or OLD. Seems nice enough and nice looking, all good. Tells you he's a binman.

YABU - immediate turn off
YANBU - give him a chance

I would never rule anyone out on the basis of their job as long as they had one.
However, if I earned a lot more than them or I felt that they were lacking in ambition I would wonder about compatibility

There was an episode of Frasier in which Roz starts dating a binman. Obviously he was very fit!

Personally I would date a binman if he was a nice guy.

[quote Kippersfortea]@Gearedtoyou

Nope! I'm wondering how to snag one now [/quote]
Haha!! 🤣 Even if you stood by your bin on collection day they’d probably not notice! Too busy getting their round done fast so they can get home!

Yes anyone but Lawyers and Estate Agents

I would be more likely to be turned off by someone with this type of snobby attitude to be honest.

This thread has just made me think about the blokes at the ‘recycling centre’ (Council tip) ... ❤️🤭

Nothing sexier than a man prepared to get stuck in and do some heavy lifting. Saying that, we have a bin woman and she looks incredibly cool clinging onto the side of the moving lorry. Like Vicky McClure in LOD.

Last summer I took the dc camping and there was a shortage of refuse collectors so all the rubbish piled up around the communal bins. The local council eventually sent the admin staff to help throw the rubbish into the lorry. It was hilarious watching them gingerly pick through the bags while grimacing and dry heaving. Made me appreciate the real binmen even more.

@Whingasaurus

Yes anyone but Lawyers and Estate Agents

Estate agents 🤢 Add to that Financial managers or solicitors ...

Of he's a nice guy of course! His job is irrelevant

What the fuck type of question is this?

@ABCDEF1234

I couldnt - the smell when they returned home isn't something I could cope with. I close the windows when I hear the truck coming so couldn't imagine having someone come into my house that smelt like that. I know I'm an awful person for saying this

They don't get in the back of the truck and roll around in it like a pig in shit. My DH has worked within waste management for years now and never has he come home stinking like the waste in the truck.

@NinaDefoe

I know! I need to expand my social group and meet some bin men in the wild when they aren't busy at work... sigh 😔

It's an important job that they do. Imagine what state we'd be in if no one was willing to collect people's rubbish and dispose of it.

I very briefly dated a guy in my twenties who worked in shop. It was not a stepping stone to anything else, nor was he studying to do something else. He was content with that...no ambition to do anything else. Honestly....it massively put me off.

I’m going against the grain and say probably not.
If it were a stop gap/they had other ambitions then yes.

Nothing against bin men or anyone doing a manual job but (perhaps naively) there doesn’t seem much in the way of progression. I had a relationship with someone previously who had a job rather than a career. Didn’t bother me. However, as time went on, I found she also had no desire to better herself, push herself, try new things, help make a better life for us. There seemed to be a link between the lack of desire to push herself or progress at work and the rest of the aspects of our life which meant it all fell to me.

I find ambition very attractive; not pay scale per say - my job has a ceiling limit salary wise unless I go for a promotion (which I’m not keen on in the foreseeable as it takes
Me away from what I actually want to do) but I have a lot of scope for sideways moves dealing with some very serious situations.

I’m now in a relationship with someone who’s ambitions/views match my own and it works far better. No one is left behind or carrying the other.

I mean obviously my case study is limited to 2 people and this absolutely doesn’t apply to everyone, but my concern is we would have different views on progression and ambition.

They don’t pour the contents of other people’s bins on their heads, you know!

Hmm.. I find binmen quite sexy, not afraid of a bit of hands on manual labour ;) but I do think this whole thread is disgusting and OP should be ashamed of themselves

Definitely 😁

Everyone likes to think of themselves as a "key worker" these days but when the bin men go on strike we see who really is the backbone of this country.

@Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead

The thread the OP refers to is regarding a pp about the posters friend dismissing her sons job choice when he said he wanted to be a binman. Consensus was people would want their children to 'aim higher' than a bin man.

Refuse collectors as they are called nowadays, are hardworking, earn decent wages and work handy hours. I can't see the problem myself.

This information wasn’t given in the OP. I think people would always like their children to achieve the maximum they can but there is nothing wrong with being a bin man. It’s a steady job. I don’t know enough about it, but I imagine there would be safe segregation of waste type courses and possible further opportunities, so I don’t think that can be ruled out either.

I can’t think of any reason why you wouldn’t.

I don’t get the smell argument either. Dp is a chemical tanker driver, some of rhe things he carries and has to help load/unload stink. But he showers so he never smells!

I wouldn't reject anyone due to the job they do. (With the exception of career criminals and male prostitutes!)

Yes I would, if I fancied them. Why wouldn't anyone?

My first boyfriend was a fisherman. Is that also worthy of a thread?

Nothing sexier than a man prepared to get stuck in and do some heavy lifting.

Ps I agree with this. However I love the idea of the Vicky McClure binlady and wish I was as practical and unbothered by hard graft, which I am sure is a turn-off for my husband sometimes.

Yeah, why not?
Someone’s job says very little about them.
My ex had a promising office job and kept “failing upwards” despite having zero ambition. (He did eventually get fired but it took longer than you would think based on the shit he did).

Why on Earth not? I quite fancy some of our binmen