Just read your updated profile:
It's nice to see that you removed your comparisons with others, you sound a lot less bitter. At the same time, you also erased all the traits about yourself that you wanted to include! As I said before, you can totally include the fact that you're a bit old-fashioned in some ways and that honesty and loyalty are some of the most important things to you.
You can express your interests without so much information. I'm pretty geeky and enjoy knowing other geeky people. But reading your list is overwhelming and will make many people go "whoa that's a lot I can't compare" and then think they won't be accepted by you if they aren't interested in all of them.
Same with your music list. You can always say that you enjoy music ranging from rock to punk to heavy metal, and then state that heavy metal is your favourite and that you enjoy mosh pits.
You state that you want someone who will go to a midweek concert and not stress about work the next day - but you also want someone who has their life together. Most people are going to view that as a contradiction and something which they can't do, same with talking all night. Most of us have jobs and need sleep during the week and those two activities are only options on the weekend.
You're still leading people to believe that you are employed and earning a wage. You need to be honest about the fact that it's volunteer with some occassional paid work. A lot of people who have their life together, like you say you want, are going to be turned off as soon as they find out that you lied and don't earn a living wage. People in the same situation as you won't mind, but they likely won't message you because they know they don't have their life together.
As for how to get nicer pictures: try different angles. All of your photos are directly facing the camera. And your smiles look a bit forced. There is absolutely nothing "wrong" with how you look, it truly is just the photos. I'm not very photogenic either and pretty much the only photos I look ok in are selfies, because I know the angles that work for my face.
When I had a profile on a site, I included pictures of me living my life - including a somewhat blurry photo of me with a hard hat on inside of a cave. I was having one of my happiest days ever then, and I knew I looked so genuinely happy. So up it went! It wasn't my main photo but it was definitely included.
Eta: I got a lot of responses too, I'd ignore the ones that clearly hadn't read my profile where I said I was not having any one night stands. The ones that said "hey" alone would depend on their own profile - sometimes I'd reply anyway and I'm glad I did as I met one of the best people I've ever known and he'd only said hi!
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