If you were dating - would you "avoid" certain professions?

[ChickenSkin]

I'm trying the online dating thing and have just got talking to a 6ft 4in bouncer and weights trainer.

Seems a nice bloke but I read "into the darkest corner" and .... well anyone that's read it will know what I'm on about.

I won't write him off for that alone but is it reasonable to be "wary" of certain professions when dating or is it terribly judgemental?

clam - he probably DID say 'less' not fewer, too, but it was me what typed it

I can imagine people in the medical profession being, erm, high maintenance. I once knew a doctor who appeared to be charm itself but behaved v v badly to his girlfriend - but that was just one guy, I don't want to imply they are all as bad as him.

Fishmonger or butcher or anyone to do with an abatoir (or how ever you spell it)

What's a woo peddler???

Loving this thread. Best lines so far ...

Can't do dating. Hate it. Waiting until I can marry my horse.

If you are using online dating, their occupation is the last issue IMO! Plenty of other issues to worry about- like have they got a wife.

Brilliant

A woo peddler is I think someone who propagates any sort of nonsense as defined by SGB.

She's absolutely right most of the time...though personally I was thinking of someone who promotes some kind of alternative medicine based on shite. I've met a few of those. They didn't like me, instantly, because they could see from my face what sort of opinion I had of their 'business'.

Where you can't respect the person there's just no hope.

Thanksflightty I think i understand

I am quite intellectual, going into postgraduate education, but I certainly wouldn't rule out someone with a manual job. Just because someone's not academic doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. My grandad was a caretaker all his life and is one of the cleverest and most knowledgable people I know.

The jobs I'd rule out are quite specific - a Tory MP/councillor, or a bouncer of a strip club or the like! I agree with sgb re: debt collector and religious officials. I probably wouldn't date anyone very religious anyway, we'd be too different. I would probably not go out with a soldier.

lemmingcurd

I'm dating & I've never really thought about their profession before.

When I look at people's profiles, there are some professions that make my heart sink a little. So, I've yet to meet an auditor that filled me with lustful thoughts, I'd struggle with a vicar too (but don't suppose they do much internet dating). Never saw myself with a town cryer (do you think they shout "Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah in the throws of passion?) or anyone who works in an abbatoir either. But, you just never know!!!! If that magic chemistry is there, I may yet be swept off my feet by a livestock artificial inseminator (I've heard bull sperm auctions are the place to go to meet farmers!).

No to:
Policeman - id worry
Soldier - id worry and wouldnt cope with the abscence
Debt collector - cunt
baillif - cunt
Lifestyle journalist - coudlnt be doing with it, i hate cath kidstone
Tory MP - liar
Fisherman - id worry

Cant think of anything else just now, im sure i will

Sadly, I've known a few people date policemen and not one has turned out to be even a vaguely decent human being.

I guess getting to stomp about with authority is a job choice which naturally appeals to arrogant fuckwit bullies.

Oh and bankers, management consultants, the City boys. I'd assume that they had no social conscience :)

Builders, personal trainers, someone in the forces, DJs. All for very different reasons!

The WORST work-related smell is cheesemaking.

Oh god the stench...

policemen, people in the forces, vicars, professional sportsmen, bankers.

Cat burglar.

whats wrong with builders first1?

Just remembered I did go on a date with a woo peddler, he taught transcendental meditation. I think he'd referred to it on his dating profile in passing but not really made clear what a BIG part of his life it was.

He also didn't drink.
Reader, I ran away fast & ignored all his texts & emails henceforth.

Can't believe policemen are getting such a bad rep, I know a few (albeit now working for SOCA) and they all seem lovely, if usually on the large side and drink quite a lot of beer (possibly two are conected).
Oh except one who was awful and leery.

Goawaybob - I'd rather not say, I'll get inundated with retaliations.

Footballers - egotistical cheaters who never grew up
Musicians - too depressing and angst ridden.
Recruitment Consultants & Estate Agents - slimy bastards

I used to go out with a bouncer with a master's degree. He is head of science at a private school now and a part-time model.

My DF is a bricklayer by trade. He has a construction company, earns three times what I do in my professional job and is the most emotionally literate partner I've ever had. You really can't judge a book by its cover.

Well Im not dating but I would watch out for social worker men.

Lots of good theory, not matched in practice, was my experience.

I feel really sorry for the police now. I shagged one once, he had the smallest knob ever. Had no idea they could be that tiny. The second one I went out with 3 times and he was a lovely sincere man, just a bit fucked up. I was scared of catching PTSD from him, his anxiety was infectious (although am probably inoculated by now) plus he had a bit of a rescue complex going on and was overly interested in my past stalkers and the coke-dealing neo-nazi who has a house full of guns I almost married last year. He'd make a good husband I should think, if you want to feel protected and he did have a good physique. Not for me though, I keep forgetting I technically still have a husband somewhere in the world.

all the policemen i work with seem ok, but they are all older/settled and generally a nice bunch. (they talk the talk but most dont walk the walk!)

alot of police seem to end up with someone in the job, i guess it helps. My dh is a baker and hasnt a clue what i do.... he just thinks i drive about all day and drink tea.