{"id":47,"date":"2011-09-09T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T09:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:07:10","slug":"jobs-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/09\/jobs-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp; Let me ask you a question, I know the job market is awful, but is the men market as well? I mean it didn&#8217;t take me long to find a job, just 9 months. However, i have been through more losers than I wanted to go through. I&#8217;ve tried the library, match.com, chemistry.com, and zoosk but nothing. It took me 9 months in a dead and lousy job market to find a job but to find a decent guy is taking longer. I don&#8217;t think my standards are too high. I mean seriously there are only a few requirements that I want. And we all&nbsp;see how those reuqirements have worked out.&nbsp;Is it so bad that all i want is a guy with a job,&nbsp;a car, and his own place and maybe not so crazy or with a record. Is that so wrong?! Apparently it is because I haven&#8217;t found a decent date worthy guy yet. I think I need more requirements because the ones who meet those expectations are either missing a few screws or are only interested in sex.&nbsp;I guess I&#8217;m going to have to step my game up and add more requirements. I mean it may be brutal to future men, but i got to weed out the losers now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done. I&#8217;ve added more to what I have termed the &#8220;The Checklist&#8221;. Men who come into my life have to have at least half of the demands checked off before we start seriously dating. Some of the new requirements I demand are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Have his own place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Have a good job (I&#8217;m not paying for everything), but doesn&#8217;t make it his life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Have a car (I&#8217;m not driving us everywhere)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) Has to wear a watch (can&#8217;t stand a man who checks his phone for the time. SERIOUSLY!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) No kids<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6) Not a slouch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7) Lives cleanly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8) Knows there are other things on tv, besides sports and reality shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9) Can&#8217;t be more than 7 years older than me. (NOT willing to compromise on this)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10) Not married <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that&#8217;s all for now. I may have&nbsp;a few more later. Gotta date some before I tweak the checklist. Let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Let me ask you a question, I know the job market is awful, but is the men market as well? I mean it didn&#8217;t take me long to find a job, just 9 months. However, i have been through more losers than I wanted to go through. I&#8217;ve tried the library, match.com, chemistry.com, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-checklist","tag-men"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}