Female teachers like firemen, jobless men are into personal trainers, and male retirees and admin assistants are an unlikely match. According to a survey by US dating site eHarmony, that is. Delving into pseudo-scientific research to better shunt couples together, the company looked at "online dating communication trends"
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Inversely, avoid male engineers, analysts, lawyers, web developers, and bankers; female marketers, business executives, analysts, lawyers and teachers. Because pick, pick, pick.
The most unlikely matches of all include doctors and students. Also, artists and students - presumably because humans need to eat. Job combos that lead to the highest number of dates include female business executives and male marketers, as well as female business execs and male engineers. Which - incidentally - is bad luck for male soldiers, who are really keen on business execs.
Female doctors speak the most with male bankers, but male bankers are most likely to communicate with teachers. Stay-at-home mums like dentists, and self-employed women like barbers. (I am yet to be struck by the number of freelance women chasing barbers, but what do I know.)
Finally, male pilots want to date beauticians, and male personal trainers like women in advertising, which I had TOTALLY already figured out just from going to Les Mills. And again, to be clear: if you are a single, female personal trainer, single unemployed guys are the go.
Good luck out there!
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