Male salary/ income is a deal breaker to women?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here i appreciate all the women honest opinions.i hear some women say they could careless about how much a guy makes long as he is good to them overall and i wondered how true that statement was to majority of women.

Also OP this board is full of a lot of petty, spoiled people who think a HHI of 400K is "middle class" ... It may be representative of DC but it isn't representative of the world at large.

Exactly. Head about 40 miles outside of the radius and you will find plenty of women who have no problem with Burger King guy...

You think a woman in Leesburg is going to be happy with a guy that works at BK? Ummmmm, I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley and a good job was working for the state or county. BK and Walmart was for losers who were going nowhere fast. We're not as low rent as your petty fantasies.

Ok then. So maybe you can answer: who does a Burger King employee date? Do fast food workers just tend to date other fast food workers?

Most fast food employees are young. The older ones obviously are not dating your typical DCUMer. Some of them are between jobs, have addiction issues, dealt with adversity, or are simply from a modest walk of life where having a modest job is nothing to be ashamed of.

I can't express enough how out of touch people in DC are. There is a whole world of people that make under $40k per year and don't consider themselves poor or losers. Many of you would be at a loss to live outside of the affluent cocoons of DC/Boston/NYC/SF etc.

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I married potential and it worked out great in the end. It was rough during the PhD years. Having a useful degree was more important to me .

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Anonymous wrote:If the size of my tits is a deal breaker for you, then it's only fair the size of your wallet is a deal breaker for me. Easy-peasy.

fair trade

Tits for tat.

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Anonymous wrote:Wasn't there just a huge thread last week with a DW ready to walk out because DH only made $150K and she was going to have to work?

Link please!!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here i appreciate all the women honest opinions.i hear some women say they could careless about how much a guy makes long as he is good to them overall and i wondered how true that statement was to majority of women.

Also OP this board is full of a lot of petty, spoiled people who think a HHI of 400K is "middle class" ... It may be representative of DC but it isn't representative of the world at large.

Exactly. Head about 40 miles outside of the radius and you will find plenty of women who have no problem with Burger King guy...

You think a woman in Leesburg is going to be happy with a guy that works at BK? Ummmmm, I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley and a good job was working for the state or county. BK and Walmart was for losers who were going nowhere fast. We're not as low rent as your petty fantasies.

Ok then. So maybe you can answer: who does a Burger King employee date? Do fast food workers just tend to date other fast food workers?

Most fast food employees are young. The older ones obviously are not dating your typical DCUMer. Some of them are between jobs, have addiction issues, dealt with adversity, or are simply from a modest walk of life where having a modest job is nothing to be ashamed of.

I can't express enough how out of touch people in DC are. There is a whole world of people that make under $40k per year and don't consider themselves poor or losers. Many of you would be at a loss to live outside of the affluent cocoons of DC/Boston/NYC/SF etc.

I know so many people in the retail industry who are in their 30s and 40s and 50s because of strange life circumstances.

Some are new immigrants with professional degrees from foreign countries that do not count here. They then take up a retail job to get some income on the side as they study to get a U.S. degree.

Others are have just been fired and are job hunting on the side.

Some do it professionally with hopes of being made manager.

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DW here, 8 years ago when I met DH, salary wasn't a deal breaker for me, due to my lack of foresight. Little did I know that being the main breadwinner is going to be a bitch when children came into the picture, especially because I don't make five figures myself and DH makes way less.

If I had known then how much it would suck, I would have married someone with a high income potential. Just being honest

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Pp-"I only make 5 figures myself"

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How much do you make, OP?

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I married someone who made under 80k, but had a good work ethic, which was also balanced with strong appreciation of family (so not working 90 hours a week). So for me, salary is not a deal breaker. Chronically under or unemployed is a dealbreaker, however, unless its a temporary and understandable circumstance. I'm not interested in dating someone who is still trying to figure out what color their parachute is at 45, or can't hold a job, or loses a job and retreats into video games and single malt.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a deal breaker to me since I am a teacher. If you make less than I do, how do you think you can provide for a family? I don't want to be the breadwinner as a teacher.

You realize there are tons of two-teacher or otherwise two-blue-collar households out there, right? Like, most of the country. Hell, in much of the country there is ONE blue collar worker and the other stays home.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a deal breaker to me since I am a teacher. If you make less than I do, how do you think you can provide for a family? I don't want to be the breadwinner as a teacher.

In most parts of the country two teachers could live comfortably. DC is just nuts with cost of living and a general sense of entitlement.

More the latter than the former, which is saying something because it isn't cheap around here.

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Anonymous wrote:I married someone who made under 80k, but had a good work ethic, which was also balanced with strong appreciation of family (so not working 90 hours a week). So for me, salary is not a deal breaker. Chronically under or unemployed is a dealbreaker, however, unless its a temporary and understandable circumstance. I'm not interested in dating someone who is still trying to figure out what color their parachute is at 45, or can't hold a job, or loses a job and retreats into video games and single malt.

Does he still make less than80k?

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Anonymous wrote:It is a deal breaker to me since I am a teacher. If you make less than I do, how do you think you can provide for a family? I don't want to be the breadwinner as a teacher.

In most parts of the country two teachers could live comfortably. DC is just nuts with cost of living and a general sense of entitlement.

More the latter than the former, which is saying something because it isn't cheap around here.

When I was growing up in North Arlington in the 1970's, my dad was a teacher and my mom stayed home with us (until I was 10 and she went to work as a teacher). In those days, the house prices hadn't escalated to these ridiculous levels. Even with a lawyer husband I couldn't afford to buy in my old neighborhood now.

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I make $640,000 and he makes $680,000. We are in the same field. My student loans were paid for by my parents.

We are even.

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OP here . wow lol , wasnt expecting this many responses in short period.appreciate all the ladies feedback.Just wondered what different females point of view was as the situation of this topic relates to me and this being a reason that i cant have a woman i want.

Ty everybody.