Anyone else expect there to be loads of attractive people when they started work and end up thoroughly disappointed?

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Always. But then I find your standards slowly get lowered and bam. Attractive people all over!

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Couldn’t agree more OP, after university it’s like they all vanish

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Damn, I went to the wrong university

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People come in all shapes and sizes 🙃

Also, whichever firm hired you, did a great job with their marketing material - clearly you’ve been deceived 😅

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Attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder, but what I’ve noticed is that attractiveness today is changing because the comparison is between normal day to day people and celebrities/social media influencers/the top 1% of attractive people you’ve swiped through thousands of profiles to see. Many people are really comparing and expecting normal people to look like 1/1000+ people and IMO it’s not healthy

I’ve heard so many saying “I don’t find almost anybody attractive anymore. It really has to be someone really, really good looking for me to be attracted”

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And yes, some professions are so lucrative and get so many candidates that many times attractiveness is the difference and they happen to have slightly more attractive people

Depends on your area of focus. Got to the marketing or social media floors, or the sales floors. They hide the talent there.

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Nope. Was pleasantly surprised 🤪

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Oof, where are you OP?

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Deloitte 👀

Haha yes tbh my first job had some really attractive people. Not too many but some catches. Ever since then it's been downhill.

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Correlation with age? Is it getting worse? Could also be intelligence

We have colleagues that uses very old or very photoshopped pics on LinkedIn. A few of them were quite the surprise upon first f2f meeting.

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Expected the opposite since it was Silicon Valley but I was surprised.

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You don’t work 👆

When I "started work"? You mean when I graduated from college did I expect my workplace to have hotter prospects than college? Uh, no. Not at all. But I also have never seen my workplace as my dating pool; my parents always said, "Don't dip your pen in the company ink."

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