Women: Do you care if your SO has a "cool" job?

[Anonymous]

I care more that he has a high-paying job.

[Anonymous]

No, I don't care if my husband has a cool job, mostly because I'm not in seventh grade and don't care about being cool. I care about being productive, working to live, and feeling like my job lines up close enough with my morals (not working for a tobacco company, or Michael Vick, for example). My husband feels the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Cool job" is pretty low on my list. Job that allows us to split child-duties? Job that allows contributing to comfortable household income? Those matter.

+1

My ex had a "cool job," which was also super demanding, unstable, and frequently changing.

I'll take boring predictability any day.

[Anonymous]

Not at all. I like that overall he likes his job since it means he's happy, but "cool" is not something I've ever thought about in terms of DH's job (or my own job for that matter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people hear what my spouse does for a living they usually cringe. Thank god it pays really well.

Is your DH a proctologist?

[Anonymous]

Yes. My husband "catches predators" and I am attracted to him because he gave up a job in finance to make a difference in the world.

[Anonymous]

DH has a super nerdy job. It's cool because it shows how smart he is and it's respectable, pays well enough, and it makes him happy. When the kids were little, they had no concept of what he does for a living. Oldest dd told people he was a firefighter because she wished he had a cool job.

[Anonymous]

Not a cool job, but given that he hauls in close to $1million a year I dont care.

[Anonymous]

My spouse does something that matters deeply to him and that serves our community. He feels good about it, he models for our daughter that a life can be committed to service, and the work is complicated enough to keep him intellectually engaged. I think it's cool that he used his law degree to help kids instead of defend corporations. That's consistent with the other things I like about him.

I could fall in love with a cable installer (though I wouldn't enjoy being given a six-hour window for dates) but I do believe that what my husband does is part of who he is.

[Anonymous]

Actually yes I do. I prefer men that are on the executive level.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a cool job, but given that he hauls in close to $1million a year I dont care.

What job pays that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If by 'Cool' you mean 'job that interests him that he enjoys so that he's more pleasant to live with' then yes.

+1 million. No one would be excited about my husband's job but he loves it and it pays (half) the bills. We work in the same field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually yes I do. I prefer men that are on the executive level.

I think you mean Executive level

[Anonymous]

Right now I wish my DH were a skilled handy man.