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Interestingly, for my older sister, the answer is yes. For my younger sister, it is no. I agree with the point, though. It's more socially acceptable for a w
by timmg 2y ago
Interestingly, for my older sister, the answer is yes. For my younger sister, it is no.
I agree with the point, though. It's more socially acceptable for a women to choose a lower paying job that she prefers.
- boppo1 2y agoYeah, I'm a man working a low paying job that I enjoy. Almost everyone I know seems to look down on me for it. 'When will you get a real job', 'when will you start your career?'
- MaKey 2y agoSorry to hear that. Does it affect your dating life too?
- boppo1 2y agoWhat dating life? I was at a grocery store today and wound up flirting with a cutie, but I don't make enough money to pay for myself to go out for dinner more than once a month. The expenses a typical woman expects (from my experience) are beyond what I can afford.
- achenet 2y agogo for hippie chicks who like doing acroyoga in the park, they're cheap dates :)
- cristiancavalli 2y agoGood for you! You should do what makes you happy and revel in the knowledge that you provide many different kinds of value and you yourself extract value from something you like doing in multiple ways. The way I think about it: no one else has to be me and work my job. Since im going to so the work then I will choose how and what I do so long as I can. It took time for me to build the emotional strength to do what I love and not care about what others think but working on that intentionally has brought so many unforeseen, manifold benefits that I wouldn’t change that path for any other opportunity.
- lemurien 2y agoIs it in Europe? I feel people would like it if you tell that you like what you do.
- boppo1 2y agoNo, the midwest.
- dudul 2y agoIt has nothing to do with "socially acceptable", I think the parent was simply talking about even having the option of doing it. Very easy to be an aspiring author/painter/singer/etc when you have a partner to pick up the bills with a "real job".
- uptime 2y agoI want to find the equivalent of HN for healthcare, where I think you’d find a ton of women MDs and highly specialized nurses who are women expressing frustration with their adjunct or artist men. This community is not the whole story.
- prirun 2y agoI had a minor procedure a while back - enough that I had to be put under - and asked my nurse if she was happy with her job. She said yeah, she loved it, but she made more money as a barkeep! I was completely shocked, especially considering the hours nurses are expected to work. This was a real nurse, not an aide. I think healthcare is a not-so-great career anymore, again because corporate profits are all that matter.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoOh yeah. Nurses and MD's are night and day in compensation. And I'm sure you've heard the teacher salaries as well by this point. Skilled labor does not outdo the decades of gender conformity expected from these jobs.
- exolymph 2y agoWas she hot? You can make a ton of money as a bartender if you're an attractive woman.
- IdiocyInAction 2y agoGiven that women generally avoid dating lower-paid partners, there's a good chance you wouldn‘t or that those people would be outliers.
- TMWNN 2y agoSuch relationships exist. But in no way are such anywhere as common as those relationships in which men earn more than women. And that disparity is primarily because, as IdiocyInAction said, women don't want to be in relationships with men who earn less, not because men don't want to be in relationships with women who earn more.