Comments on: My Divas experience http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/28/my-divas-experience/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:25:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: stjarna http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/28/my-divas-experience/#comment-70 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:12:28 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/28/my-divas-experience/#comment-70 I don't think it was so much the health field thing that may have killed it for your potential dates. Anything having to do with insurance discussed outside the walls of such institutions is a conversation buzzkill. Most people's experience with it involves negative images and conversations will only go downhill from there. People who work in the insurance field who really like to talk shop off hours isn't natural and you should avoid them at all costs. When I used to be an insurance agent, I found myself hesitant to even discuss what I did for a living. I either got an earful because of a claim gone wrong, or I became the proverbial doctor at a cocktail party who is asked to diagnose symptoms to get some free tips....Although being a network administrator isn't as bad, I still get a small earful sometimes when people vent about their computers. This was an interesting anecdote. Sex workers, health insurance policy, alcohol, and transgendered women always make for an interesting story. -sj I don’t think it was so much the health field thing that may have killed it for your potential dates. Anything having to do with insurance discussed outside the walls of such institutions is a conversation buzzkill. Most people’s experience with it involves negative images and conversations will only go downhill from there. People who work in the insurance field who really like to talk shop off hours isn’t natural and you should avoid them at all costs.

When I used to be an insurance agent, I found myself hesitant to even discuss what I did for a living. I either got an earful because of a claim gone wrong, or I became the proverbial doctor at a cocktail party who is asked to diagnose symptoms to get some free tips….Although being a network administrator isn’t as bad, I still get a small earful sometimes when people vent about their computers.

This was an interesting anecdote. Sex workers, health insurance policy, alcohol, and transgendered women always make for an interesting story.

-sj

]]> by: Emilia http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/28/my-divas-experience/#comment-68 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:13:40 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/28/my-divas-experience/#comment-68 Yeah. been there. Being a professional woman and being trans definitely reduces one's pool of potential partners quite drastically. Yeah. been there.

Being a professional woman and being trans definitely reduces one’s pool of potential partners quite drastically.

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