Where to hang out to meet nice men 29_36yrs age group

Tradie-type? Why?

Anyway, I don't know. She sounds like a good catch. good luck

 

I was going set her up with @datto but then you mentioned moral Datto's a great bloke, honestly.

 

Young dumb and full of ... err you get the picture

 

I wouldn't worry about her. Sounds like she is fairly social with lots of opportunities to meet people. I'm sure the right person will appear eventually.

 

She should become a cyclist and start riding with groups in the morning. Mostly nice guys who get up too early to socialise at normal hours. Not so many trades though.

 

Join a couple of social groups, speed dating, intro from friends and circle and just being out there. Phd qualified girls became a hot commodity due to the show "Big Bang Theory". Like the other guys mentioned, she seems to have plenty of opportunities to meet new people.

Not saying your daughter is like this but I find that some of my friends who are single seem to have unrealistic expectations for their ideal partner with athletic body build, 6 figure paying job, chisel jawline with dimples, post graduate qualified, drives a M3 as a daily and a Ferrari as a weekender and of course lives in Edgecliff/ Dover Heights (I used to have a ex-friend like this where she worked her way up from a health professional to graphic designer to doctor than surgeon). It helps also that their parent's are surgeons/ chief justice/ chairman of a company with a vast empire to hand down.

 

Tradie doesn't imply unintelligent and PHD holder doesn't imply street smart and financially set-up.

While tradies don't tend to have PHDs, there's a lot of clever ones out there. Smart enough to have seen that a uni degree doesn't necessarily guarantee a well-paid job, let alone a job in your field of study. They may well have started working early, run their own businesses by the ripe old age of 21, and thus know how to run businesses and manage finances. They also don't carry the burden of huge HECs debts as people that went down the university path do. However the other side of the coin is that they may well have previously been married, had kids and have a financial support obligation there.

I think it would be very odd to encounter a tradie in her age bracket that doesn't own property if for no other reason than that they've been in the workforce for so long that they had the money to buy, and did so. They also tend to have plenty of tradie friends to help them with works and renovations. The networks that tradies have never ceases to amaze me.

Your daughter needs to decide which things matter the most. As others have pretty much pointed out, it's going to be a phd OR tradie. It's highly unlikely she'll find both. Keep in mind also that tradies work hard for quite some time and a lot end up with bad backs due to this. That makes exercise harder in life, so they may not be able to sustain that 6-pack.

I know plenty of people with PHDs that haven't got a single asset or penny in the bank to their names and are really getting on in their years. It is not necessarily a given that an academic person is street smart and well-off.

 

Thanks Gockie, she's in Perth but I think you're right, sport might be the way to go.

 

She's meeting guys through Tinder and having trouble finding someone suitable? Mind = blown.

If she wants to meet tradies, she needs to socialise where tradies socialise. Aka the pub. It's not rocket science.

 

Whao....... My lucky day! Where have I been in the last four hours?

OK I'll be at Maccas carpark on Popondetta just after 10pm, silver commodore (I'll be sitting on bonnet with a glass of scotch n coke).

I got a slight wound to my forehead which is still seeping but should be cleaned up by then....otherwise tell her not to be scared of a trickle of claret down the side of my brow.

And about me, I'm very handy with tools.

 

Thanks everyone for your contributions. Of course she doesn't know that I've brought this up, however she's been on tinder & another website so thought the smartest people I know could assist with suggestions. I won't be posting up her photo as she would be mortified and embarrassed. Even though I said tradie type, I don't think this is a given ... Probably someone down to earth who can laugh at themselves and with her. She made friends with a girl and ran with her crowd for a couple of weeks but they were corporate people whom she found materialistic not in a pretty way, so she withdrew from that scene. You've all given really great advice and I think I'll be encouraging her to get a bike and hit the bike paths and join a mixed volleyball team!

 

My brother from Melbourne met his wife in the UK. She was from Melbourne too!

 

its not so much about earnings or earnings power, nor is it so much about common interests, in my view.
Its more about day to day mindset and approach to working together, solving problems, teamwork etc...and that's where you might find a substantive difference between a tradie and a phd.

 

Perfect timing! Next meetup is Sat 31st Oct

 

Which is why she should not be alarmed by the shovel and bag of extra large cable ties in the boot, they are leftover from the date I mean job earlier in the day

 

Searches flights to Perth...Any deals going at the moment?

 

I have two unattached sons, aged 30 and 27. PM me.

 

My understanding is that Tinder is a hook up site. Essentially a lot of people use it for casual sex. Probably not the ideal place to look for a long term partner?

But what would I know? When I got hitched, we were still using dial up modems to connect to the interweb thingy.

 

the advise is the same advise i gave on sommersoft (and oddly enough similar to what was said to my wife before she met me). Be interesting and social, if you are doing interesting stuff (travel, hobbie, sport, learning to ride a motorbike, run a tri-athlon, it doesn't matter), you will find people doing similar things, it also means you have a lot on so small talk is no problem because if they ask what you were up to this week you have about a million stories cause your life is great.

i never really gave online dating a crack but i do know people who have had casual hookups on 'rsvp' and 'relationship' sites and on the other hand those that have ended up living with 'tinders'. The problem for me if i was on an online dating site i would be 'looking for a partner' rather than 'being actually interesting', being interesting led to meet lots of people and ultimately my wife.