10000BC Posted August 23, 2009 Posted August 23, 2009 In your experience, has it been much harder to meet people and get dates now that you've graduated and moved to a full-time job? As for myself, I'm moving to a finance-wall st-type job soon in a big city. Its pretty male-dominated and I guess I'll be working at least 60 hrs a week, perhaps even 80 in some weeks. This is also a city that I am not familiar with, and where I knew pitifully few people. Therefore, I don't have any social circle to start with. Should I try online dating? What was your experience with that? Is it easy to join and find special interest clubs AND meet potentials, in your experience? Just trying to get a range of responses here.
monkey00 Posted August 23, 2009 Posted August 23, 2009 In your experience, has it been much harder to meet people and get dates now that you've graduated and moved to a full-time job? As for myself, I'm moving to a finance-wall st-type job soon in a big city. Its pretty male-dominated and I guess I'll be working at least 60 hrs a week, perhaps even 80 in some weeks. This is also a city that I am not familiar with, and where I knew pitifully few people. Therefore, I don't have any social circle to start with. Should I try online dating? What was your experience with that? Is it easy to join and find special interest clubs AND meet potentials, in your experience? Just trying to get a range of responses here. I would have to say after college, your pool of potential suitors absolutely shrink - as you're no longer surrounded on campus by single/taken women. I think in either scenario, you just have to make the most of your opportunities. And specifically after college, you'll probably have to be a little more aggressive when it comes to meeting new folks. Online dating also increases your pool of suitable opportunities, if you're interested it doesn't hurt to give it a shot.
Author 10000BC Posted August 23, 2009 Author Posted August 23, 2009 Hmm, thats what I thought. Guess than f-ing blows... Man, I miss college already. Not that it was all a breeze for me, esp in terms of dating, but I guess the best has already past...
westernxer Posted August 24, 2009 Posted August 24, 2009 In your experience, has it been much harder to meet people and get dates now that you've graduated and moved to a full-time job? Yes. Should I try online dating? Yes. What was your experience with that? It's a jungle out there. LOL Is it easy to join and find special interest clubs AND meet potentials, in your experience? Yes, but most of those groups suck. Never know until you try, though. I'm glad to be rid of college. It's shields you from real life.
start-fresh Posted August 24, 2009 Posted August 24, 2009 I graduated in May and can honestly say I haven't talked to a single potential date, unless you count cashiers at department stores and the like, since I graduated. I wish someone would have put some pressure on me in college to try to find someone serious because after, it's orders of magnitude harder. I wake up at 5:30 every morning to be at work by 7, and am typically on jobsites until 6 at night. By the time I get home from work I'm so tired I never have the energy to go out and try to meet people. I'm looking to make some changes in my life though. I'm way too young to be working this much. I also think it is what you make of it. In a lot of ways, it can be better. People aren't so consumed by activities like they are in college and I think people are generally more mature and looking for something real, rather than just a fling.
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