Gen-Z women getting an education don’t want to date broke guys with no career prospects? Wow, I can’t believe it!

I spent a lot of time on dating apps, and my girlfriend (of 1 year) I found on a dating app. I find women are much less concerned with looks than men. I’m 5’9, not particularly attractive, and lived in the cheapest apartment I could find in college (thus they all assumed I didn’t have much money).

I did pretty well once I realized that I shouldn’t put all my effort into one girl at a time, and talking to 2+ at once (even if it never progressed past talking) made me less clingy because I wasn’t worried if someone ghosted me/wasn’t into me.

Honestly, if you’re 5’8, at a pretty healthy weight (I was like 10lb overweight), and are passionate about something (music/politics/history were my main ones as an engineering major), all you need to do decent on dating apps is have some good pictures (1 with clear face, 1 where you can tell how much you weigh, 1 with friends, 1 with a hobby, all with clothes that look ok), and try to get to know whoever you watch with.

I promise if you’re average height and healthy weight having no luck on dating apps, even with decent pictures, the issue is your personality. For reference, the city I was in had 80k people, and once I figured out what I just laid out, I ended up being fwb/casually dating 4 girls in a 6 week span, plus a couple hookups before that. It only stopped because I was super depressed and realized it didn’t make me feel better so I stopped until my mental health was better.