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?

I am just wondering how this would work if it were reversed?

I have had 3 careers and with the exception of a bouncer, fishmonger, forces and butcher, recognise some of my careers as being not terribly popular choices !

it' s funny the preconceptions that some of you have about various carrers.

I think I shagged MightyNice's teeny peeny plod too.

Looked like a wizened acorn?

we (me and friends) thought he looked like an ANUS

was yours called Julian?

oh you mean his knob? it was like a skinny slug with a bowler hat on

Ahahaha.

No, not Julian but his name did begin with a J.

I did a doormans course a couple of years ago, expected to be the only girl surrounded by growling men of muscle, but instead met some lovely guys with not a shaved head or a growl between them.
The thing with bouncers is they do get flirted with a lot so I guess you have to be confident enough to not mind that.

I'd NEVER date an estate agent. After 6 years in the industry working for a very large chain of estate agents I cannot think of one man that worked there that didn't cheat on his partner at some point with a colleague. Infact one of my old managers recently got fired from the company as he got caught having it off in a customers house with one of the admin girls from his office, all behind his wifes back. The christmas ball was always a massive sleaze fest, lots of stupid girls sleeping with the managers in the hope of future promotions (that never arrived). I'm glad to say I never went near any of them!

Wouldn't it be easier if we listed the occupations you would date. I only ask, becuase based on the posts so far, I'm struggling to think of what's left

No one has mentioned firefighters yet .. although mine found it too hard to go from working with men and lesbians .. and had to have an affair with the first heterosexual woman he worked with on secondment

Builder - yes. Scaffolder - no.
Retail banker - yes. City banker - no.
Security adviser - yes. Security guard - no.
Gardener - yes. Landscape artist - no.
Mends ordinary pipes - yes. Mends oil pipes - no.
Sells groceries - yes. Sells investments - no.

Oh, this is too hard Just apply HotDamn's criteria, that works!

Muff diver - yes. Deep-sea diver - no.

Estate agent, car salesman, city boys, politicians, musicians, artists, actors. Men who work on oilrigs or firemen - I would worry. Psychiatrists - they are all bonkers. Chefs - terrible hours.

I would keep an open mind re Forces.

No vicars unless I get special dispensation to be excused from flower arranging. I would however be prepared to open the village fete wearing a large hat.

I'm going to date myself. That appears to be the only sensible option left. :(

My friend is buying me a rabbit for my birthday Stratters I'm with you :)

Not literally though

I'd say avoid politicians. I married one though. OOOPS.

On a serious note, you have to think about more vocational stuff - like vicars or forces - as they require a level of sacrifice from family and I think you have to be up for it.

I'd avoid medical consultants, high-flying lawyers, city types as I like people who have time for their families.

Oh, yes - avoid musicians IME. Except for flings

Stratters Nah .. tried the girl thing.in 2000 (well it was the new millennium!!) .. think I'll stick with boys.. and rabbits :)

I don't date what one of my friends refers to as 'office monkeys' - basically any man with a desk job in an office, including (but not limited to), insurance bods, lawyers, accountants, actuaries, management consultants, civil servants, and so on. I have a phobia of men with small soft hands which is generally what you end up with stuck in an office all day

Other perhaps less than attractive occupations: religious leaderestate agent, gravedigger, funeral director, electricians (because Ex-P was one), refuse collector, street cleaner, fishmonger.

It really is no surprise I am single...!

HotDamn a nice civil servant is fine, just check he doesn't own a tank top or work in the accounts section. Or both.

No architects - I really don't want to see his etchings
No actors - do I need to explain this one?
No anesthetists - don't ask

Butcher

Undertaker

Soldier (although I did date one once, much to my pacifist families horror)

Someone who artificially inseminates cows (can't remember what they're called).

Someone who works for Rentokill (ewww!)

Vicar

Model

Any job I don't actually understand.

Estate agents - lying, patronising twats
Musicians - selfish, lying, egotistical, scrounging twats (was married to a guitarist)
RAF blokes - drunks
Squaddies - oafs
Secondhand car dealers - see Estate Agents

It wasn't a nice poo, it hurt my bum

Thanks for sharing, ChickenSkin.

A friend of mine slept with many bouncers during her 6 years of clubbing. She reported back that almost everyone of them had an abnormally small penis...

I'd avoid members of the clergy. Really can't imagine having any relationship with a 'man of God', I wouldn't know how to behave.