I'm sorry, I have been single throughout the majority of my time in a startup, including part of the time being CEO. So I feel like I'm speaking with some authority.
Dating forces you to go out and meet people of the sort that you won't meet in your office. It ends up having a substantial sales component, too -- keeping track of leads, worrying about which ones run cold, trying to close deals, etc.
Dating is an excellent distraction, and besides -- as a smart ambitious male, I'm seeking a smart ambitious female to be a partner in crime. And guess what, she's probably spending her 20s pouring her heart and soul into her career too.
We circle-jerk so much about "OMG being in a startup is SO INTENSE" but have you ever talked to law students? first-year associates? Med students? Students getting PhDs in super-competitive experimental science fields, like molecular biology? they're all putting in crazy hours too.
And we all love our work, and if we're intellectually curious people, we LOVE hearing about others' work. So no, you're not BORING on a date -- boring on a date is talking about how you and your friends got SO DRUNK last weekend. Boring is "yeah, then I watched back-to-back seasons of 30Rock". Boring is not "here is my plan for total world domination".
Working all the time at your passion makes you, female or male, _more_ attractive to potential mates -- if you're looking for the right sort of person.
It's that last line that bugs me, you've made a sweeping statement about what you want being right. You've decided what everyone should want and how their relationship should work. You speak authoritively for yourself.
Dating forces you to go out and meet people of the sort that you won't meet in your office. It ends up having a substantial sales component, too -- keeping track of leads, worrying about which ones run cold, trying to close deals, etc.
Dating is an excellent distraction, and besides -- as a smart ambitious male, I'm seeking a smart ambitious female to be a partner in crime. And guess what, she's probably spending her 20s pouring her heart and soul into her career too.
We circle-jerk so much about "OMG being in a startup is SO INTENSE" but have you ever talked to law students? first-year associates? Med students? Students getting PhDs in super-competitive experimental science fields, like molecular biology? they're all putting in crazy hours too.
And we all love our work, and if we're intellectually curious people, we LOVE hearing about others' work. So no, you're not BORING on a date -- boring on a date is talking about how you and your friends got SO DRUNK last weekend. Boring is "yeah, then I watched back-to-back seasons of 30Rock". Boring is not "here is my plan for total world domination".
Working all the time at your passion makes you, female or male, _more_ attractive to potential mates -- if you're looking for the right sort of person.