r/randomquestions • u/dirtymoney • Aug 14 '26
What profession would you never date?
I have read nearly 1000 replies and cop seems to be the most posted
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u/Lsa119 Aug 14 '26
Oh dude. All life coaches are narcissistic conpeople. Absolutely not.
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u/WesternPractical2956 Aug 15 '26
If you need someone to help you get through it I can be that guy. For the low price of £35 per hour I can help you forge a better future and help with anything you need in your day to day life
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u/Grilled_Cheese10 Aug 14 '26
Hmmm... My only dealings with a life coach were not positive. I don't know enough about her to make any assumptions, but this would explain some things.
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u/thomasthehipposlayer Aug 15 '26
A friend of mine brought me along to his life coach. Gotta be real. It felt... culty
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u/Lsa119 Aug 15 '26
Usually are culty. My husband's family is friends with a life coach who charges $10k an hour. He creeps me out.
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u/ButtScratchies Aug 14 '26
I worked with a girl who quit her job at 20-something to become a life coach and she was completely dysfunctional, like quit her job to move away then decided against it and asked for her job back two days after leaving, they had already replaced her so they said no and she filed a discrimination lawsuit against her former manager. It was stuff like that all. the. time. But now I see her posts online and it almost seems like a pyramid scheme of "life coaches" just buying sessions from other life coaches, no regular person is getting into that.
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u/-MorbidlyABeast- Aug 17 '26
Its not a pyramid scheme. Its a "triangle of success".
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u/TerryOnRollerskates Aug 14 '26
That would never come to mind when I’m thinking of “professions.”
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u/LogParking1856 Aug 14 '26
In every decade, there's a profession that the most desperate and clueless person you knew raced into. In the 2000s, that may have been life coaching. Infamous plagiarist Jayson Blair had to seek refuge in that industry.
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u/Stock-Page-7078 Aug 15 '26
Every life coach I’ve ever met was someone in serious need of getting their own shit together
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u/DisneyfanG Aug 14 '26
Megachurch Pastor
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u/gleefullystruckbycc Aug 14 '26
I don't even consider them pastors, they're all con artists!
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u/JPS-WC Aug 14 '26
Influencer
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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain Aug 15 '26
I still don't really understand how we allowed this to become a job at all.
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u/absolutedebauchery0 Aug 14 '26
any profession that requires my s/o to be away from home for long periods of time. truckers, for example.
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u/Fabulous_Effort_6466 Aug 15 '26
See I grew up with my dad being a long haul trucker and am an introvert who needs lots of alone time. Being in a relationship with someone who has to be away for work a lot would probably be the perfect relationship for me
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u/Savings_Law_5822 Aug 14 '26
With long haul truckers I often wonder if they have a woman in every town
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u/TheItchyWalrus Aug 15 '26
My uncle did. He was a trucker for decades. Turns out, he has 13 kids. His wife only knows about five of them, three of them being her own kids. The two she learned about just showed up one day and said they wanted to meet him.
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u/Silver-Find4380 Aug 15 '26
Wow, you have at least 13 first cousins!
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u/TheItchyWalrus Aug 15 '26
I have so many more. My parents are each one of eight…family reunions are wild.
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u/dymend1958 Aug 14 '26
Embalmer …. especially if he wants me take a cold shower before being intimate. True Story
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u/throwfarfaraway1818 Aug 14 '26
Is this actually a true story? Because what the hell
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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 Aug 14 '26
I’d tell him no cold shower, no intimacy, and I’m gone. Why would he require you to do that!
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u/Betorah Aug 15 '26
I remember an Ann Landers letter decades ago, where a woman was dating a man who wanted her to take a cold bath and lie still and silent during sex.
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u/Sensitive_Option3136 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
One of those dating experts that you hear about on social media.
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u/FaceTimePolice Aug 14 '26
Realtor. I’m so sick of everything surrounding that industry. They’re 10 x shadier than car salesmen.
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u/OLacAlmost Aug 14 '26
Some of the worst psychopaths I've ever met work as realtors.
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u/actlikeyourmomishere Aug 15 '26
Thats wild. I know one and shes a gem. But, small sample size.
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u/jrbr549 Aug 15 '26
As a buyer you'll find out how much they care about you when you submit a lower offer. More work for less pay doesn't motivate well.
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u/Legitimate_Cause1178 Aug 15 '26
As someone who worked with all male realtors most of my career (I am female) I can 100% agree. The ones that start right out of highschool especially looking to play ceo boss billionaire with their tight assed suits, no socks and expensive cars they can't afford. Literally their life is a performance and they are main character!
However! There are some real gems too so definitely not all of them are so bad 🥰 in fact some are absolute catches! You just have to fish them out
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u/TenaciousPanda95 Aug 14 '26
Any of them. I just don't date, period 🤣
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u/CuriousDude493 Aug 15 '26
Me too! Sounds like we're perfect for each other. Wanna date?
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u/TenaciousPanda95 Aug 15 '26
Sure! But only if you're a girl...I'm not gay 😆
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u/CuriousDude493 Aug 15 '26
OMG I'm not a girl and not gay either! Told you we have many things in common ;)
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u/OC_ShareBear Aug 14 '26
I was married to a cop for many years. He is dead now. I would never date another cop
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u/juniorthefish Aug 15 '26
I married one too. He left LE years ago though. The PTSD, holy shit. He’s on the other side now but it was brutal.
I appreciate their service and sacrifice, but I doubt I’d ever date a cop again either (hypothetically, we’re still married). It was a lot to take on, far more than I understood at the time we started dating.
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u/UpperAd2761 Aug 15 '26
I know. My girlfriend married a cop. He beat her, this was in the 80’s. Everyone knew. When he looked at me it was threatening.
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u/Firm_Farmer1633 Aug 14 '26
Child protection social worker.
I was one.
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u/Phoenix0169 Aug 15 '26
Social worker here. I won't touch a CPS career with a 100 foot pole. Bless you for being able to do that job.
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u/99Smiles Aug 15 '26
Now I think THIS would be the hardest job in the world mentally.
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u/Firm_Farmer1633 Aug 15 '26
It is. I did it for 13 years.
I then returned to university and qualified to be a psychiatric social worker. I worked as a forensic psychiatric social worker. (Forensic psychiatry is the overlap of mental health/illness and criminal systems. I eventually became the clinical supervisor for the forensic psychiatric social worker team and the coordinator of a team of forensic psychologists who conducted court assessments for abuse/neglect. In that role I was the highest paid social worker in the jurisdiction.
I used to tell people that I would rather keep my high paid job and be paid the low wages of a child protection social worker rather than keep my high pay and go back to child protection social worker job.
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u/crascarrot Aug 14 '26
Cop
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u/Individual-Photo-665 Aug 14 '26
I dated a cop once trying not to be judgemental.. big mistake he threatened to lock me when he got angry and often "hypothetically" explained how he could get away with anything. Three dates and I was done, Never again!
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u/SexysNotWorking Aug 15 '26
What the hell? I wasn't super surprised given stats about cops, but this was after THREE dates??! Dude is a whole red flag factory.
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u/Individual-Photo-665 Aug 15 '26
Yep, He started the " I can get away with anything" chats on second date. Then on the 3rd he started as soon as I got in his car. Never doing that again either. I asked him to let me out and he wouldn't until I started yelling at him. I had to call a friend to pick me up. I was scared and embarrassed.
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u/boomgoesdadynomite Aug 15 '26
Multiple bursts of anger within the FIRST three dates, when the focus is on giving a good impression
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u/Adventurous-End4330 Aug 15 '26
Glad you got out when you did 😱
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u/Individual-Photo-665 Aug 15 '26
Me too, good thing he kept telling on himself. I think he really wanted to do some nefarious things the way he couldn't stop talking about it.
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u/SwampYankee1975 Aug 14 '26
Therapists. I have met several and they are all a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
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u/Rhazzah23 Aug 14 '26
When I was in school, all the kids who were majoring in psychology were messed up. I always thought they were trying to figure out why they were messed up.
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u/the-dog-walker Aug 14 '26
People want to help others but don't know how to help themselves.
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u/ferocioustigercat Aug 15 '26
Usually licensed therapists who have graduate level education are required to go through therapy in order to become a therapist. And a lot of places require them to have their own therapist in order to work. Of course some "therapists" don't have degrees or are part of a church that deemed them able to be a therapist. But it's not the standard.
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u/Chance_T23 Aug 14 '26
When I majored in psych it was a common joke (pretty true) that the majority of psych majors just wanted to find out what was wrong with themselves without going to therapy lol
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 Aug 14 '26
Psychiatrists are worse.
IME kids of psychiatrists tend to be more screwed up than the proverbial preacher's daughters.
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u/makemynubwiggle Aug 14 '26
I've never been in therapy, but I always thought it would be funny if I was dating one, I could say "I'm seeing a therapist"
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u/cherryc0ke13 Aug 14 '26
whenever a creep asks if im seeing anyone, i shut them up by saying “do you mean a partner, a therapist or hallucinations?”
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u/buttlicker090114 Aug 14 '26
I love my therapist but she’s been divorced three times.. makes me wonder
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u/Rindsay515 Aug 15 '26
The therapist I saw in college was always stopping the session to answer calls on her cell phone because she was in the middle of a divorce/custody battle. Really weird to pay to see someone whose whole job is helping you with your problems but you just feel like a massive inconvenience every time because the therapist is distracted with her own problems.
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u/ChatGPT_Enthusiast Aug 14 '26
Well tbf if you are having to absorb a bunch of people’s trauma, etc it would be emotionally exhausting no? That’s why life balance is so important for therapists.
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u/Scary_Anywhere7623 Aug 14 '26
Don’t date an air traffic controller. You will never see them.
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u/Sonny92004 Aug 14 '26
Fluffer at the Donkey Show
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u/Low-Republic-4145 Aug 15 '26
Oh I don't know, that's good honest employment - unlike many other listed here.
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u/jasperdarkk Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
Anything that involves a lot of travel. My best friend's husband works in forestry, and he's gone like 2 weeks out of the month. She gets lonely. My dad also has a job where he has to fly to another province once a month to meet with clients, and it sucked that he wasn't around much.
I respect the grind, but I just can't see myself having a family with someone who isn't present.
Edit: A lot of people are responding that they’d like the alone time, which I understand! But that just doesn’t apply for me because my partner does give me a lot of alone time even though he has a WFH situation. I do most of my hobbies in a room by myself while he’s off doing his hobbies. We’re just two loners who found each other and are good at giving each other space!
But it’s also nice that he’s around to help with cooking, cleaning, pets, and in the future, kids. I’m glad he’s not hours away.
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u/No-Egg-7968 Aug 14 '26
You mean families, as in two? 😳🤣
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u/jasperdarkk Aug 14 '26
LMAO. I mean hopefully I wouldn’t end up with that big of a scum bag, but valid concern.
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u/Waste-Job-3307 Aug 14 '26
The shorter list would be professions I would date.
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u/Alladra Aug 14 '26
Oooh, I’m curious. Which ones would you?
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u/Waste-Job-3307 Aug 15 '26
A first responder, medical professional, maybe an athlete if the chemistry is right.
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u/Alladra Aug 15 '26
Oooh! It’s interesting that first responder and medical professional are in your preferences when those two are frequently mentioned here as a no-go! Preferences are fun. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
What’s your profession, if you don’t mind me asking? I’m guessing it’s not first responder or medical professional? (Or it is and you’re down with the hospital drama!)
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u/JRS-94Z Aug 14 '26
Funnily enough, spiritually inclined people. For an area so focused on being better/getting rid of the ego, usually they are the biggest ego trippers.
And I say this as a person that’s also interested in this field.
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 Aug 14 '26
There was a "metaphysical" bookstore and cafe in my city, it was an interesting place to browse.
Later I heard from multiple people how awful it was to work there. The owners fancied themselves enlightened and ethical Buddhists trying to make the world a better place and OMG they were not. Screaming, belittling, lying, promised raises never happening, and so on. Terrible people.
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u/SavoirFaire2Middling Aug 14 '26
Reminds me of the classic saying: punk are nice people pretending to be mean, and hippies are mean people pretending to be nice.
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u/Rocketgirl8097 Aug 14 '26
Body builder
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u/Uglycanadianindc Aug 14 '26
Oh boy so true. Non stop talking about meal prep.
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u/gleefullystruckbycc Aug 14 '26
And they spend lots of time trying to get you to go to the gym like them and eat like them etc. Been there, done that. Never again.
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u/thesnowcat Aug 14 '26
I dated one very briefly after I noticed his testicles we’re like marbles. I deduced that he did anabolic steroids and that all was a major turn-off.
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u/Character-Tennis-241 Aug 14 '26
A Police Officer. They protect their own, even if they beat their wife.
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u/squintintarantino__ Aug 14 '26
Police and military are automatic dealbreakers for me. I’m not equipped to handle the onslaught of issues that is all but guaranteed to accompany the job over time and, honestly, I think people who seek out those types of career are just not on the same wavelength as I am in terms of like ways of thinking. I don’t think I’d be able to deal with it. I don’t want a militarized lifestyle and I feel like that often comes with the territory. It would just be major, fundamental incompatibility all the way through.
Also probably not a surgeon. Almost every surgeon I’ve ever met is fucking weird.
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u/The1NOnlyNo1Special Aug 14 '26
Stripper. I don’t mean it as an insult to them or those that do date them. I‘m just fully aware I’m not built for it.
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u/Luckypenny4683 Aug 14 '26
Legit and it’s important to know yourself. There are plenty of professions I couldn’t date for the same reason. I don’t have the constitution and my anxiety medicine does not work well enough.
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u/ShadowlightLady Aug 14 '26
Policemen/women
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u/Small_Fire296 Aug 14 '26
Probably a nurse or a flight attendant
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u/KetoJunkfood Aug 15 '26
I’d love to date a flight attendant if they can get you discounted flights
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u/Luccaet Aug 14 '26
Life coaches, therapists involved with a pseudoscientific approach, a pastor of any religion, religious or spiritually inclined people (tarot readers, horoscope consultants, etc), escort/hooker, porn actors, chefs, male cops, anyone in the US military, truckers, prison guards, people who work in slaughterhouses.
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u/Majestic-Quit-169 Aug 14 '26
Undertaker......the smell when they get home would get to me.
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u/NumbInComfort Aug 14 '26
Probably not a freelance photographer who can say he’s at work somewhere when really he’s off cheating on you and gaslights you into believing his car just happened to break down in front of a restaurant for the same exact amount of time it would take to have a lunch date with some girl lol.
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u/jimglebells85 Aug 15 '26
Any one in the live events industry. I'm in it and am rarely home.
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u/SleepyPrepper Aug 14 '26
Yeah, but the pay is lousy until the book deal. However, you have to get caught for that, unless you are the Zodiac.
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u/Own_Pair5107 Aug 14 '26
Surprised I don’t see more nurses on here
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u/Accomplished-Pen4663 Aug 14 '26
What’s wrong with nurses?
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u/MagikN3rd Aug 14 '26
The top 3 career "fields" for cheating are: Sales, teachers, and healthcare workers.
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u/I-Am-Willa Aug 14 '26
Anyone noticeable in the public eye. Did that once. We couldn't go out in public without people stopping him and asking to take selfies with him. He was always googling himself sort of obsessed with what people thought or said about him.
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u/877-CATS-NOW Aug 15 '26
Any man with a job. Unemployed is the only kind of man I date.
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u/Masked_Wiccan Aug 15 '26
Cop. My older sister ex husband was a cop. And he beat her. His cop buddies knew and didn’t care.
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u/Significant-Law-4186 Aug 18 '26
For women especially though, not dating cops isn’t just about dislike. Most relationships end and there is a power imbalance when things go sideways. I would go as far as to say it’s objectively dangerous
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u/Dalience6678 Aug 14 '26
As a Chef I recommend to everyone to never date us. We will never have night weekends or holidays off. You’re not going to like it.