Partners Job

ilikepears

Say for example you had a extremely well paid job and your meet someone you really like and they work in a low paid job would it put you off. I work in a minimum wage job myself and wonder does it bother men that a woman they are interested in work in a low paid job? I would like to think it doesn't but I suppose they will always be people who look down on others for various reasons.

The Backwards Man

I want to marry a rich old woman with a bad cough. I don't care how much she earns as long as she is rich. And has a bad cough.

Meritocracy Wins

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I want to marry a rich old woman with a bad cough. I don't care how much she earns as long as she is rich. And has a bad cough.

Wouldn't a good gag reflex be better?

flutterflye

Not at all. Wouldn't bother me in the slightest - hopefully it wouldn't bother them either.
But if someone had a chronic cough, I don't think I could deal with that. I really hate it when people cough near me. The noise of it really gets inside my head.

foxinsox

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I want to marry a rich old woman with a bad cough. I don't care how much she earns as long as she is rich. And has a bad cough.

Aw..

I'm old and have a cough, the cough isn't too bad though.

Ihatecuddles-old

Wouldnt bother me at all....!

Nodin

ilikepears wrote: »

Say for example you had a extremely well paid job and your meet someone you really like and they work in a low paid job would it put you off. I work in a minimum wage job myself and wonder does it bother men that a woman they are interested in work in a low paid job? I would like to think it doesn't but I suppose they will always be people who look down on others for various reasons.

...couldn't give a crap if they had a good job, bad one or none at all.

SCOOP 64

dont matter ,if its the right person.

Nodin

foxinsox wrote: »

Aw..

I'm old and have a cough, the cough isn't too bad though.

...dodgy staircase?

The Backwards Man

Meritocracy Wins wrote: »

Wouldn't a good gag reflex be better?

Don't be ridiculous. Every single thing doesn't have to revolve around sex. Some of us are motivated by money.:p

The Backwards Man

foxinsox wrote: »

Aw..

I'm old and have a cough, the cough isn't too bad though.

Feel free to PM me a picture of your bank statement. Maybe we could hook up.;):pac:

Wabbit Ears

Depends on age etc, If s(he) was a young one and working thats great, that's a good thing but still in minimum wage in their twenties or thirties? No, that would be a major dealbreaker for me.

The Backwards Man

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I want to marry a rich old woman with a bad cough. I don't care how much she earns as long as she is rich. And has a bad cough.

You could play hide and seek and shout 'BOO' at her. A lot. From behind her, when she's going down the stairs, for example.



It's about the person, not the job. Sometimes interesting jobs make for interesting people though, but a person shouldn't be defined only by what they do.

TheUsual

Not these days.

I don't know any guys that ever boasted to other lads about their girlfriend's jobs, or maybe I don't mix with the right type of people. :pac:

PhlegmyMoses

I fecking hope not because the missus earns way more than I do and I'm not exactly on peanuts.

It's actually something I've noticed recently that quite a few of my friends in relationships are the low earner relative to their missus.

Czarcasm

ilikepears wrote: »

Say for example you had a extremely well paid job and your meet someone you really like and they work in a low paid job would it put you off. I work in a minimum wage job myself and wonder does it bother men that a woman they are interested in work in a low paid job? I would like to think it doesn't but I suppose they will always be people who look down on others for various reasons.

Some people OP, will go out of their way to find reasons to feel superior to others, but you either let them look down on you, or rise above it. You're a person just as much as they are. If they look down on you because of your occupation, they're not worth your time.

It wouldn't bother me personally, but I know of people that would judge a person negatively based solely on their occupation or lack thereof. These people are closing themselves off from all the other fantastic qualities that person has to offer.

hairyprincess

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I want to marry a rich old woman with a bad cough. I don't care how much she earns as long as she is rich. And has a bad cough.

I'm a Princess, with a a dodgy cough. How do you feel about hairy legs though?

Odysseus

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Depends on age etc, If s(he) was a young one and working thats great, that's a good thing but still in minimum wage in their twenties or thirties? No, that would be a major dealbreaker for me.

Why would it matter that much? What another person earned has never been an issue for me in a relationship, but that is just me.

The Backwards Man

hairyprincess wrote: »

I'm a Princess, with a a dodgy cough. How do you feel about hairy legs though?

Wouldn't bother me if there was an Oak tree growing out of your arse, our marriage would be strictly platonic.:)

discus

Wouldn't bother me at all, as long as they're happy with what they're doing. Not sure if I could go out with someone in a morally dubious job though.

PhlegmyMoses

discus wrote: »

Wouldn't bother me at all, as long as they're happy with what they're doing. Not sure if I could go out with someone in a morally dubious job though.

Like banking or politics?

discus

Precisely

Bruthal

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Depends on age etc, If s(he) was a young one and working thats great, that's a good thing but still in minimum wage in their twenties or thirties? No, that would be a major dealbreaker for me.

A good receptionist perhaps?

jester77

It's the dowry that counts!

Conmaicne Mara

ilikepears wrote: »

Say for example you had a extremely well paid job and your meet someone you really like and they work in a low paid job would it put you off. I work in a minimum wage job myself and wonder does it bother men that a woman they are interested in work in a low paid job? I would like to think it doesn't but I suppose they will always be people who look down on others for various reasons.

If money matters like that in a relationship, its on the road to ruin.

Wabbit Ears

Odysseus wrote: »

Why would it matter that much? What another person earned has never been an issue for me in a relationship, but that is just me.

Dont get me wrong, When I met my wife she was on below minimum wage working as a childminder and I was earning good money but she was also going to school and moved onwards and upwards from that and now earns more than I do. All Im saying is everybody starts somewhere and that place is normally minimum wage but if you're content to stay there then that's a dealbreaker for me.

Bruthal

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Dont get me wrong, When I met my wife she was on below minimum wage working as a childminder and I was earning good money but she was also going to school and moved onwards and upwards from that and now earns more than I do. All Im saying is everybody starts somewhere and that place is normally minimum wage but if you're content to stay there then that's a dealbreaker for me.

And is there a time limit for the potential other half to get a higher paid job before you consider their relationship with you untenable?

--LOS--

This topic crops up a serious amount of times in here......

but anyway, nope wouldn't matter, I should hope it wouldnt bother the oh either since I'm in long-term education :P

robman60

Wouldn't bother me at all as long as she did something. It would bother me if she were unemployed and not actively seeking work though.