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I Found Online Dating Success by Departing From the Four Most Common Profile Requests:
Educational background, income level, common interests, and age range
Introduction
I understand that many people see it as logical to date others with similar educational backgrounds, income levels, and interests, and within a narrow age range near theirs. I can attest to the fact that I am now in the most successful relationship of my 77-year-old life and that I found my guy by specifically rejecting these four common requests featured in online dating profiles and apps.
I’ll go through these one by one so that I can share both my rationale for ditching them as well as my results.
Education background
I am a product of public schools from kindergarten through Master’s degree. In 1969, with my B.A. in hand, I began teaching in urban public schools. It’s a career that I kept for 34 years until my retirement at the age of 56 in 2003.
Put these two facts together and you will correctly surmise that I am well aware of the value of education. At the same time, one of the most vivid lessons I learned during my teaching career is that not all people are cut out to sit behind a desk and follow the requirements that come with achieving an academic education.
I believe that one of the greatest errors ever made in school districts across the country had to do with the elimination of the vocational high schools that taught non-academic subject matter to students whose interests lie in directions outside of academia.
We have failed as a nation to recognize that people who are attracted to such fields as plumbing, electrical repair, carpentry, vehicle and air conditioning repair, accounting, culinary arts, and hospitality management are not only needed for the services they provide but are vital to our economy.
During my teaching career, I learned about Multiple Intelligences Theory, in which Harvard professor Howard Gardner shows very clearly that in…
