People tend to go into and stick with careers that suit their personality, sure, but it seems like after 10 years into a serious career habits/views from work start to affect how people approach their lives outside of work including socializing, judging/measuring new people, and interacting at home in general.

We've noticed this certainly applies to my wife and I - we're new to swinging and use a couple of apps to find couples and have run into this we think, but want to know if it's coincidence or something others have noted.

Here's the more general r/polls version of the poll too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/polls/comments/13m078d/how_much_does_your_job_affect_how_you_socialize/

Examples:

We run into folks in sales who certainly seem to be paying a lot more attention than others to what we put on our profile and really work to emphasize where we are the same (even if there's at least as many or more things that don't match well).

We met a lot of teachers, and especially the ones teaching HS make up their mind pretty quick on folks. Talking with another new couple about this - the wife said she meets hundreds of new students every year and gets used to categorizing people after having known them a short time.

We met lots of folks in the medical field that seem a nice mix of caring, practical, and comfortable with the human body. 😉We ran into one HR person who when seemed to sort of be managing us at one point in between meetings. 😂

I'm an engineer, used to evaluating technical decisions thoroughly from all angles before making final decisions and recommendations and definitely have found myself spending more time than my wife thinks makes sense getting to know couples when she would have passed due to some detail on their profile while I thought "yeah, but there might be more to them than that".

Obviously people are a lot more than their work experience, but we'd love to hear what you think in the comments:

Do you do this?

Observe some of the same?

Other career-types with trending interaction styles?

Do you notice swingers in certain professions tend to approach meeting new couples similarly?

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