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"Is it OK to ask about salary on the first date?" How to marry romance and finance
29 Nov 2024
It's cuffing season: the time of year where the weather cools down and folks look for a warm body to cuddle up with. But we're getting into some of the less warm and fuzzy aspects of dating. For the next few weeks, we're kicking off cuffing season with some of the big questions about dating in our culture right now.This week – the song "Looking for a Man in Finance" went super viral on TikTok this year, and yeah, it's fun. But does it speak to people's broader desires to find someone who's more than comfortable financially? Host Brittany Luse is joined by Wailin Wong, co-host of NPR's The Indicator, and Reema Khrais, host of Marketplace's This Is Uncomfortable. They discuss what people are really looking for from a man in finance... and whether dating up in class is even possible. Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus content by joining NPR+ today: https://plus.npr.org/Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Say you've been talking to someone on an app. You meet up on a date. It's going well. And then they ask you how much money you make.
How do you react? I think that I would either go into a blind panic or if I had a little bit more presence of mind, I think I would deflect with a joke. I would say something like, I get paid in tote bags. And then I would just try to wrap things up ASAP and get out of there.
Did you hear that? It's the sound of cuffing season, the time of year where the weather cools down and folks look for a warm body to cuddle up with. For you skeptics out there, yes, cuffing season is real. The data from a few different dating sites show an increase in activity from November through February. But we're getting into some of the less warm and fuzzy aspects of dating.
For the next couple of weeks on It's Been a Minute, we're kicking off cuffing season with some of the big questions and big debates about dating. This week, a lot of us have heard this one song on TikTok about looking for a partner.
I'm looking for a man in finance. Trust fund. Six five. Blue eyes. Finance.
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