June 29, 2009

• I Talk About the Same Thing At Work, I Talk About the Same Thing When I Get Home

  I went to a baby shower this weekend and the room was filled with baby talk, baby walk, and drug breath.  Lots of toddlers and six and unders walking around.  Drug breath?  Yeah, they were all pharmacists that had gone to grad school together.  My friend informed me that so and so married so and so, and so and so married so and so and… I said, “You mean your friends went to pharm school together and lots of them married another pharmacist?” 

  She warned me that some of them might tangent off into pharm talk, which happened, but I didn’t notice because I was talking to someone else.  I was envious of how cool it would be to marry someone else who was in an equally stable and high paying profession, how one would never have to worry about not being able to pay the mortgage or having to choose between affording club soccer or piano lessons for the kids (why, they could have both of course!). 

  I’m one of those snobs that finds 90% of all work talk boring.  Well, that’s not exactly true.  I love asking people about the nuances of their jobs, but you know what I mean.  You and I might have questions on our taxes, but we don’t want to hear about an accountant’s bad week where he couldn’t balance the books.  I want to know how rewarding it feels when a nurse bonds with a healing patient, but I don’t want to hear about how the bedpan changings went.  The most interesting people to me always seem to be the artistic ones, the athletes, the entertainers, the movie makers, the world travelers, the foodies.  If I was an actor, I would totally be interested in hearing what scripts my actress wife has been reading.  If I was a pharmacist, I’d rather hear my wife talk about changing the kids’ diapers than hearing about complaints from customers about having to pay for pills that aren’t on the formulary.  If I was in construction, I wouldn’t want to go home and have her tell me about how should couldn’t get the crane permit from the city for their building project, sounds like the same thing I heard from my supervisor yesterday. 

  Does it really matter?  Would I mind marrying someone who did accounting?  I don’t know.  I’d prefer not to, but I wouldn’t count it as a negative against her.   I guess we I wouldn’t know until we cross that bridge.  All I know is that if I was a trash collector, she better not be one too. 

  1. Is it better to date in or out of your industry?   And is it easier or harder for you to date within people of your profession?
  2. Talking about the same topics at work and when you get home is interesting.  Talking about the same topics at work and home is damn boring.  Which is true for you?
  3. Are there any of you that consciously avoid dating people in the same line of work as you?  Why? 

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