Do you prefer more successful/educated friends and dates?

[Auggiecakes]

I am a young (~30) professional with a graduate degree, and I'm doing well in my career. Some of my other friends are also successful, well-educated professionals, but others are not. These other friends are nice people, but they might live at home with their parents at the age of 30, and/or have low-end jobs (retail, restaurants, receptionist, etc) that don't go anywhere. I like to travel and eat at nice restaurants, and I've started to prefer the company of my more successful friends because they can afford to do these things.

When dating, I don't want to start a relationship with anyone without a college degree. I also prefer to date guys with fancier educations and better jobs. I don't expect a 24 year old guy to have a PhD and be a CEO of a big corporation, but I probably prefer a lawyer, engineer or medical student over the barista with an arts degree, assuming everything else was equal.

TL;DR: Does anyone else have similar preferences for friends that are more successful or educated? How about dates? Is this a reasonable way to pick friends/dates?

when your friend who makes six figures a year looses his job cause the market crashed once again... will you leave his side because he can't afford the weekend brunch at the trendy new cafe?


I used to think like you, until it happened to me. Money is worthless; they print more of it everyday & education doesn't mean anything if you don't have the conscience to create a better world with it. I value the way someone makes me feel and the time they are happy to share with me. Doesn't matter to me if that mean going out to a broadway show and a dinner by time square or staying home and watching Futurama with take-out

You are born with family but you choose your friends so pick them wisely.

 

[mako shark]

I spent 35 years working with the most educated brilliant people on earth (as society sees them) but find them really boring outside of work. Ironically I have a very good friend that has more money than he knows what to do with and he barely graduated high school, however he works harder than anyone.

 

[rayray]

I am a young (~30) professional with a graduate degree, and I'm doing well in my career. Some of my other friends are also successful, well-educated professionals, but others are not. These other friends are nice people, but they might live at home with their parents at the age of 30, and/or have low-end jobs (retail, restaurants, receptionist, etc) that don't go anywhere. I like to travel and eat at nice restaurants, and I've started to prefer the company of my more successful friends because they can afford to do these things.

When dating, I don't want to start a relationship with anyone without a college degree. I also prefer to date guys with fancier educations and better jobs. I don't expect a 24 year old guy to have a PhD and be a CEO of a big corporation, but I probably prefer a lawyer, engineer or medical student over the barista with an arts degree, assuming everything else was equal.

TL;DR: Does anyone else have similar preferences for friends that are more successful or educated? How about dates? Is this a reasonable way to pick friends/dates?

@KuronoB said: These other friends are nice people, but they might live at home with their parents at the age of 30, and/or have low-end jobs (retail, restaurants, receptionist, etc) that don't go anywhere. I like to travel and eat at nice restaurants, and I've started to prefer the company of my more successful friends because they can afford to do these things.



You have every right to hang with your better educated friends . Money can't buy you love . (Well maybe) . You could be out on that date when your looking for Mr. Right and you are served your meal by a former acquaintance or greeted at your doctor's office by an ex flame . You know, these people with the dead-end jobs .