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This has never happened to me in either dating or friendship (in NYC).

• leggomylibro 9y ago
  I guess I should have been more specific; I'm talking about cities where programming and tech are the major growing employment markets like SF. NYC is a much more stable and healthy area.
  • kelnos 9y ago
    Ah, SF. I live in SF (and am a programmer) and don't see this problem. I think I just don't use work as a focus for conversations with new people. If it comes up (with someone I can reasonably guess isn't in tech), I'll usually just self-deprecatingly say something like "oh, yeah, I'm just another one of those software people", and then move on to another topic. I've never had anyone push me to focus on it and vent their frustrations on "tech people", or even just dismiss me because of my job.