![]() Posted in Guide to Dating | Tagged courtship, dating, finding the one, luck, match, mate, Mr Right, partner, relationship, relationships | Leave a reply 129 Ways To Get a Husband. Then, on second thoughts – why were you inclined not to be nice to someone in the first place? Was that particular person a source of trouble? It matters, because according to the above thinking they could be the family you are marrying into. Say 1-5 binary criteria that can be easily checked by your proxies.ġ4 Be nice to everybody – they may have an eligible brother or son.Īlways a good rule, although ‘kind’ might be more authentic than ‘nice’. So you may want to specify a few criteria. Let’s just say, my father and brother had interesting date suggestions for me growing up. I have found out over the years that a straight man may not be the best judge of what you could find attractive. Beware though of whom your friends’ husbands might recommend. There is nothing wrong with a bit of networking. I am not so sure you want to marry a flight attendant after reading those: they have the third highest divorce rate, at 50.5%.ġ3 Ask your friends’ husbands who the eligible men are in their offices. ![]() Now, what is well documented, is the divorce rate of different occupations. It varies more with educational attainment, but not even that much: the more educated you are, the more likely it is you will marry (over 90% for those with a full college degree, about 80% for those with secondary school only, using US labor force data.) I researched a bit, and the marriage rate itself does not seem to vary so much across professions. I have no idea where the authors of the ‘129 ways’ got their statistics. ![]() It makes for a big part of the smirks we cannot suppress when reading, because in our day and age it does not hold any more.ġ2 Become a nurse or an air-line stewardess -they have very high marriage rates. This basic assumption, of marriages not being between (professional) equals, but rather of female hypergamy (women marrying up) recurs several times in the original article on the ‘129 ways’. Therefore, for better or worse, a clerical job in a law or medical school will normally not make the job holder an eligible prospect for the budding lawyers and doctors studying there. This trend has started around the end of the second world war and has become stronger since (also see here and here.) In other words, lawyers tend to marry lawyers, and doctors other doctors, or at least someone of similar education and wage. Assortative matching means, partners in a couple tend to correspond in age, wage and education. So, more likely an administrative job? – This advice dates from a time where marriages were not yet, on average, assortatively matched. What was meant by ‘a job’ in those schools? Teaching jobs may not be in rich supply or easy to pick up. The idea behind this counsel was probably to immerse the ladies in an environment where they would find a doctor, dentist or lawyer husband. Get me my iced matcha latte.ġ1 Get a job in a medical, dental or law school. Hallelujah.īest time to sit in the garden between roses and peonies and question 50-year old romantic advice, from an economist’s point of view. It also is one of the first weekends that allows a bit of a breather no business trip, no die-hard work deadline, no big family event to take care of.
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