I already posted here once but felt I needed to post again. I have lots of education and would I do it again. I cant say yes or no to that. I like to learn but I have so much education it makes me feel different. Not because I am different but because people treat me different when they find out my educational level and what kind of jobs i have had.

When they know me they know I am not into titles or anything like that and honeslty there are experts in every field its just that often times you dont need a formal college education to be an expert. And so I have dated people from all walks of life. I have found many professional men start getting very competitive with me no matter waht i do or how much i keep my mouth shut. Which by the way I aint doing anymore cause that is bs an I am over it!

Then I go out with the blue collars guys that could seem to care less about if I have this education and in fact seem to be proud of me an not competitive so I start thinking thats the ticket. Unfortunatly, that guy usually starts to turn all insecure on me and starts wanting to be with me 24/7 until I just cant take it anymore.

So that has been my life for these 46 years. And now after talking with a friend here that had some luck I think I will just stick to people with graduate degrees. NOT because I can't relate to people without them. But because they CAN'T SEEM TO RELATE TO ME. They can even seem to be friends with me, so far very predictable scenario dating and I cant do it anymore.

So while there me be a great guy out there that is a plumber and would be perfect for me, at this stage of the game I am probably not going to date him. I just cant go through the insecurity stuff. NOT that all plumbers are insecure dont get me wrong. But it seems that even if it starts out good, they eventually start turning insecure on me, I have to start pumping up the ego constantly and I just cannot do it again.

I hate to say that I believe it is because I am a woman and unfortunatly I believe that many men become very uncomfortable dating someone that may be more educated. NOT ALL! But lots. Sad, cause I have never cared.

I like em smart but educated was never that important to me. I have changed my mind and it has nothing to do with how I feel and everything to do with how they appear to feel about me. IT honestly makes me wish sometimes that I never even when to college. That is the sad truth.

But I am where I am now and there are no do overs. This education is part of me and it is not something one can give away, even if I never worked another day in the field, and so....I am going to try and date other men like me because looking back I can see they always treated me like I was just another person which is what I have always wanted.

Funny thing is, I worked at an institution with lots of medical doctors when I was young but swore I would never date one because they were "too stuck up". I realize now that was MY own insecurity. Here I was scientist with a PhD and I was not willing to date any MD and to be honest now that I come to think about it never agree to go out with any other PhD men so guess I probably thought they would be no fun or weird. How ironic, I was discrinating against my own kind. LOL

If you made it this far thanks for letting me get that out there. I dont think I have ever said it all out loud before