10/21 Is it harder finding a significant other when you start working
in the real world full time?
\_ uh...YEAH. think about it...if you're working 8 hours a day or
more, and you don't go drinking, don't do church, and if
you don't have lots of friends to hook you up, it gets
REALLY hard. try to get hooked up before you leave college.
dating at work can be awkward b/c if things go badly, you
have to see that person on a daily basis still or still
work with them, that's messy. or your workplace might
be a virtual purgatory with no women your age, only
older 50-60 year old women nearing menopause and retirement.
you don't necessarily have to get desperate and marry the
person next to you before you leave college. Your friends
are your best connection at this stage other than your outside
hobbies, if they are anti-social and have no leads, then
you are pretty much sort of fucked. like lots of other people,
I think it's rather typical nowadays.
-- angry alum
\_ Get one of the older people at work to hook you up with
thier daughter. Easiest way to get to the top is to marry
into it. Beware that you will have to treat this person
nice otherwise things can get very hard at work.
The other alternative is to have your parents find you
a wife. Arranged marriages are cost effective and long
lasting. None of that dating non-sense. The downside is
that the proven system for arranged marriages is pretty
much indian only, so unless you are indian SOL.
\_ How could it possibly be any harder?
\_ meeting fewer eligible people?
\_Less TIME. actually having to work 8 hours a day,
and commute 1-2 hours total
\_ More free time, not having to be in class 4 hours a day,
working 4 hours a day, and studying/working on projects
10 hours a day. (Or were you an English major?)
\_ WTH do you do for a living? I'm working ~ 60-80
hrs a week, I've got less free time now than when
I was at Cal going to class, labs, doing hw/projects
and so on. However, I'm looking forward to the
day (shortly now thanks to my options) when I can re
tire and become a full time skirt chaser.
\_ Programmer at a company who IPO'ed when
you were learning to program in BASIC in
grade school, so there are no "do or die"
deadlines, and the options have a much
higher chance of being worth more than the
toilet paper that the average startup
stock options end up as.
\_ well, my options are in two decently
large companies, so I'll be joining
the millionare club soon. The reason
I work so much is cause the old shits
in my company don't do anything except
count their money and someone has to
finish the coding.
\_ How much money do you need? I work ~40 hours
per week and my options will be worth $2M in
another year+
\_ I'm out at 5M.
\_ in class or out, you are still surrounded by
peole close to your own age, who are or will be
college educated. Its different in the "real world"
\_ lots more people talk about kids. You starting looking
at women's hands for rings.
\_ the pool of eligible potentials dwindles drastically
once you leave school.
\_ Return to school, become a hs teacher. Just make
sure to keep your hands off the ones you know are
underage.
\_ how successsful could this possibly be? it's
barely viable and definitely not tolerated
in the United States.
\_ It worked for Na-chan (If you understand
this, I'm apologizing in advance)
\_ might not have been very serious about
the last response. |
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