Posted on 09/12/2019 8:18:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I work in employee benefits.
30 years ago it was almost 100% male.
Now it’s 95% female.
These are high paying field rep jobs, planners, benefit consultants etc
Same with banking, insurance and finance.
Amen to that!! I am 62, work in banking, have no trouble getting dates, make well over $120K in a small town market, but because many women in my age range have become ridiculous with very bad attitudes, many being simply bat $h1+ crazy, I have been single by divorce for over 18 years. Not going to marry a problem or someone who makes me miserable. Not looking for Miss Senior America, either, so my standards are not set that high. Haven't completely lost hope and still have my eyes open, but I never ever expected to be single this long . . . not my nature.
“I know linemen with HS degrees only that make +200K.”
Not in my area. They do well. But not 200k. $65-85k per year tops unless a higher up boss.
Well said
How much of that is affirmative action.
In my career, I saw a lot of women being promoted because they were women.
Not that they were incompetent, but if it was even close, the job went to the woman.
Sucks to be them. I make more and just do the designs.
They risk their lives, and they work a lot of hours.
Think that might be part of the problem?
I told my boys to STAY CLEAR of women who were raised in the US (or Western Europe), as I did. There are billions more women who are not products of our cultural rot and therefore the chances of a successful marriage are much greater for them.
Since, in the end, it’s all a probability game - yes, there are still good women in the US, but at a far lower percentage than before, and at a far lower percentage than many other countries. So why roll the dice here, if it’s not necessary?
Sorry, but my guys have found the women out there are a hundred shades of nuts.
Have to go with EE Gator on this one. I have a Bro-in-law that has no choice but $200k. The hours are brutal and even when he’s off,he’s on call.
On a different note, I made the following comment in general and it still applies: The article is a full page on marriage and not one mention of God or what the Bible says on the subject...see any problem?
I did. My parents were aghast when I married a mechanic.
26 years later we own our own business including the commercial building it is in and have one payment left on our house (we are pretty excited about that). We have 4 successful adult children living responsibly and independently on their own. They all have associates degrees, two are pursuing bachelors in STEM fields, one is a tradesmen like his father and the the youngest just married an electrician.
I have been a stay at home wife since day one and live a comfortable spoiled life, although he does make me spend a morning or two a week on doing the books.
This from the article “It’s kind of a renewal of the dignity of work, which is that someone who has a skill, has a trade, and is able to work hard will be able to support a family even if they do not have a college degree,” is what we need to shout from the rooftops.
It didn’t take long for my parents to realize what a talented gem my spouse is. He is a genius with cars but he is also a fair hand at plumbing and construction.
What do I do all day. Some light housework, a little scratch cooking and various hobbies.
Women won’t marry down. Men won’t marry old.
One correction.
The degree shows that you completed the graduation requirements, and does not mean you are smart OR educated.
Behold the unspoken method of men, in response to flaming feminism, simply called MGTOW.
Western society is really screwed up.
Feel really sorry for the young guys these days. An unintended consequence of relative economic independence for women is they have little interest in getting married and just want “hook ups” and tinder. As a result, it’s like high school all over with all the girls chasing the few “hot guys” while ignoring guys who they perceive to have lower status or desirability, who they reject pretty shamelessly.
This goes on - for a while.
Like until early to mid thirties when they are starting to look a bit worse for the wear after a decade or so of good times in the party time, hook up culture and fewer and fewer guys are are asking for phone number.
And all those undesirable nerds are finally entering their peak career years after years of putting in their dues.
Now that THEY are successful, the last thing they want to do is seriously date the women who have been rejecting them for their entire adult lives and who they have a serious chip on their shoulder against.
Instead, they are going for the younger girls in their teens and early twenty’s who are working hard at starting the cycle that the now increasingly desperate thirty somethings are at the end of
At the end of the day, everyone is miserable, alienated from members of the opposite sex and increasingly bitter as the prospects of a meaningful relationship and traditional family life with kids fades into oblivion
Well, other than a certain French President.
People with at least a rudimentary understanding of human sexuality predicted this when no fault divorce laws first began to be passed. They also predicted a push for homosexual marriage if no fault divorce could first be passed. Here we are now, and they were right on both counts.
Frankly though, this state of affairs is not in any way a problem. It is a solution. People who don't want the injured party to be compensated in the event of a divorce have no business whatsoever being married themselves. When we have people who implement just laws again this situation will change.
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