{"id":17259,"date":"2018-08-22T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datemixstaging.wpengine.com\/?p=17259"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:08:32","slug":"dating-data-study-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoosk.com\/date-mix\/dating-data\/dating-data-study-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Study: How Your Work Life Affects Your Love Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From a young age, we\u2019re taught that love is the most valuable thing in this world. Then, we graduate high school and work and career ambitions often become our main focus. As an adult, we spend most of our lives working and looking for love (and occasionally looking for love at work). But how do these two major forces that shape our lives overlap?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The online dating site and app Zoosk surveyed over 5,000 daters and collected information from over 8,800 different profiles and 163,054 messages to understand how our jobs affect our dating life. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/b>Are more dates a secret work perk for men with good jobs?
\n<\/strong>If you\u2019re a guy with a good career who\u2019s interested in woman, then you\u2019re in luck. A whopping 71% of women think that a good job or career makes their date more attractive. Men are pretty split on this however, with only 49% them agreeing that a good job makes a date more attractive.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And younger daters care more about each other\u2019s jobs than older daters\u201477% of Millennial women and 60% of Millennial men think that a good job increases the attractiveness of a date.<\/span>
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The vast majority of daters want someone who\u2019s career-driven…<\/b>
\n<\/b>87% of women and 75% of men say that dating someone who\u2019s focused on their career  is important (with 18% and 9% respectively saying it\u2019s very important). And some cities have singles that are more career-driven than others. <\/span>
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\u2026but not a workaholic.
\n<\/b>It really is all about balance. It\u2019s totally okay to have a little fire, but don\u2019t forget to chill out and take time away from work. 60% of singles say that they\u2019re not okay dating a workaholic and that they\u2019d like to be the priority in their partner\u2019s life. And and overwhelming 97% of singles said that having a work-life balance is important to them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top Ten States Where Singles are Career-Driven:<\/b>
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Delaware \u2013 92%
Nebraska \u2013 90%
New Hampshire \u2013 87%
North Dakota \u2013 87%
Alabama \u2013 87%
Alaska<\/a> \u2013 87%
Tennessee \u2013 86%
Hawaii<\/a> \u2013 86%
New Jersey \u2013 85%
Maine \u2013 85%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results for sexiest work uniform are in and the winner is:
\n<\/b>Men in uniform score a spicy jalape\u00f1o on the hotness scale\u2014look out firefighters. To the lawyers, doctors, and nurses out there: all those years in schools weren\u2019t just for a big paycheck\u2014the dates are coming in spades for you, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women<\/b><\/td>Men<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
Nurse<\/span><\/td> Firefighter<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Flight Attendant<\/span><\/td>Lawyer<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Librarian<\/span><\/td>Doctor<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Lawyer<\/span><\/td>Police Officer<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Personal Trainer<\/span><\/td>Soldier<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


\nOffice romance: hot or not
\n<\/b>In every new job training, we\u2019re told that love and work should be kept separate. Of course, we also know that this doesn\u2019t necessarily always play out in practice and that a lot of people meet and fall in love at work.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the topic of office romance, there\u2019s some disagreement between men and women\u201463% of men were okay with consensual office romance, while only 45% of women felt the same. And women\u2019s opinions differed a lot from generation to generation too. 74% of women in Generation Z approved of office romance, but that dropped with only 58% of Millenial women approving, 45% of Gen Xers,  and 41% of Baby Boomers. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20% of singles admit to sexting on the job.
\n<\/b>Online dating has given daters the power to meet millions of people anywhere and everywhere they have access to internet. Incidentally, that also means at work. 73% of singles admitted to checking their dating apps at work and 20% even admitted to sexting at work before. That\u2019s a lot of people finding love on the job.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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74% of women prefer men who make more money than them.
\n<\/b>Until recently, most households were single income, but no longer. Now, men and women alike are often career-driven and passionate. Still though, when looking for a romantic partner, especially for the long-term, the money question always comes into focus. We asked Zoosk singles their preference in the relative income of their preferred partners. 74% of women said that they like dating someone who makes more money than them with 14% they preferred someone who makes significantly more money. Only 27% of men preferred dating someone who made more money than them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hot words equal a hot date.
\n<\/b>We scanned 417,607 profiles and found that mentioning the following job-related buzzwords increases inbound messaging rates:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               Buzzword             <\/b><\/td>Increased Response Rate<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
    Designer   <\/span><\/td>78%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
    Entrepreneur<\/span><\/td>59%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Architect<\/span><\/td>42%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Coach<\/span><\/td>41%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Teacher<\/span><\/td>40%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Ambitious<\/span><\/td>38%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Accountant<\/span><\/td>30%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Doctor<\/span><\/td>28%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Student<\/span><\/td>26%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Firefighter<\/span><\/td>25%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
HR<\/span><\/td>25%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Nurse<\/span><\/td>24%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Officer<\/span><\/td>24%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Chemist<\/span><\/td>23%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
 Musician<\/span><\/td>22%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Manager<\/span><\/td>21%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Artist<\/span><\/td>11%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
PR<\/span><\/td>11%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Chef<\/span><\/td>10%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Professional<\/span><\/td>9%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Cook<\/span><\/td>6%<\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Engineer<\/span><\/td>4%<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Well, that\u2019s about it. Everything from careers to sexting at work\u2014it\u2019s all there. Now, get out there and find the firefighter to put that heat out in your heart.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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