Would You Date Someone Who's Unemployed?
SodaHead Living
2012/06/29 19:00:00
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Not only will being unemployed affect your bank account, it will affect your love life, too -- especially if you're male. A whopping 75 percent of women say they are unlikely to date a guy who is out of a job, according to a poll from dating service It's Just Lunch.
More specifically, 33 percent of women said they would NOT go out with someone who is unemployed, even on one date, and other 42 percent said "Maybe" with the caveat, "I wouldn't want to throw a lot of time into it unless they had a game plan for getting back on track." Only 4 percent said "Of course" and 21 percent said "Yes. But I'd be curious to see how they're keeping occupied in the meantime."
Meanwhile, almost two-thirds of men were OK with dating an unemployed woman, with 19 percent having no reservations at all and 46 percent saying they would definitely date a jobless gal.
Our friends at How About We aren't overly shocked by the poll results, but think women should be more open-minded. "To women, having a job is huge, and I understand. Not because I want a guy to be rolling in benjamins and buying me stuff, but because having a job is a sign that you have your sh*t together and care about stuff and are ambitious and are working toward something, etc.," writes one female blogger.
She continues, "But! Obviously (especially today), people are between jobs all the time. I have a friend who pretty much quits his job whenever he feels like it and then travels to Iceland for two weeks and then comes back and easily finds another job. Some people can do that." Would you date someone who's unemployed?
Meanwhile, almost two-thirds of men were OK with dating an unemployed woman, with 19 percent having no reservations at all and 46 percent saying they would definitely date a jobless gal.
Our friends at How About We aren't overly shocked by the poll results, but think women should be more open-minded. "To women, having a job is huge, and I understand. Not because I want a guy to be rolling in benjamins and buying me stuff, but because having a job is a sign that you have your sh*t together and care about stuff and are ambitious and are working toward something, etc.," writes one female blogger.
She continues, "But! Obviously (especially today), people are between jobs all the time. I have a friend who pretty much quits his job whenever he feels like it and then travels to Iceland for two weeks and then comes back and easily finds another job. Some people can do that." Would you date someone who's unemployed?
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Top Opinion
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Jersey Roze ♥Jwon's Cyar'ika ♥ 2012/06/29 18:48:17Yes
+13Being unemployed doesn't mean you don't have money. And besides, as long as the person is trying to find work, I don't see a problem with it...
but i am not going out with someone like Drillbit Taylor
But that's because I'm headed to uni. But if I were older and we were in a live in situation then that depends. There are fabulous men out there who would want to be house husbands if income from the wife/girlfriend was stable. Them I wouldn't mind.
If he was just a lazy bozo on the other hand. Nah.
I just got a job, after over a year and a half of being out of work, so I know what it's like!
date him with the understanding that he is serious about finding a job.
I date a man for who he is and for his character and not for money.
Just because a man is unemployed doesn't mean he has no money or that he won't
be working in the future. In short, if a man is worth it, I would date him if he was unemployed. If a man isn't worth it, I don't care if he was a millionaire. I wouldn't date him.