It's funny you bring this up because I'm dealing with this right now. I have a high-paying salary. It would be somewhat difficult to only date men who make the same or more than me. But I find what matters to me is not the man's salary, but that he is a hard worker and passionate about what he's doing. Someone asked me yesterday if it would bother me if my partner were a bee keeper, and I said no, as long as he were truly passionate and dedicated to being a bee keeper.

I am very career oriented, and I can't imagine being with someone who just does a job because it's a (I mean forever, not temporarily or in transition). I feel like that would be miserable. I have seen friends and family who are in marriages with partners who just have jobs and those partners are miserable and they bring that misery into their relationship. They are always exhausted, not energized, by their work. I work hard, often 10-12 hours a day, but I find my work invigorating. Sometimes it wears me out, but most often I am excited and energized by it. I know I am lucky in that, but I will also say I'm not in my chosen profession, so it's not like this was my dream job to start out.

So salary doesn't matter to me, but passion and ambition and motivation do. I can't stand a "slacker" or someone who doesn't care about doing a good job, whatever the job.

Seesaw