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Way over gaming if you go into those deep poetic sentences. “What do you do?” “Make pots”. Done. no need to over analyze everything just so you have more to write. Some essays are short.

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If a chick gets to the point where she asks me what I do for a living, her attraction level amps up 2-3x over the course of the next ten minutes, without fail.

Why?

Because it’s hard to explain what I do for a living and as a result I never give them a straight answer. I always have a couple of business ventures or investments in the works. I don’t fit into a “slot” like most people.

I finally made the connection that it was my answer to this question that was wetting panties when I realized that this works REALLY well on chicks who have boyfriends in the same room. Frighteningly well. Like, to the point where I have to make a conscious effort to put distance between myself and the chick because she’s the new girlfriend of a friend.

Several years ago I had a girl ask me this when I was hanging out at Dan’s in Adams Morgan. She was a bitchy lawyer who worked at some big law firm downtown, and couldn’t wait to tell me first to impress me (or possibly intimidate me). So, I decided to screw with her a little.

Her: “I just graduated from [insert prestigious law school] and joined XYZ Biglaw firm in its [blah, blah, blah] department. Where do you work?”

Me: “My office? I have a small one in a building downtown. It’s not much; I don’t even have a window.”

Her: “Well, mine has a nice view of the monuments. It’s pretty impressive. So where’s your office?”

Me: “The White House”

Her:

I think a lot women (dare I say most) share the same dream – finding a man who doesn’t know his own value, like a car that needs someone to step on the gas and steer. I think this is why saying, “I build things out of mud,” and then she later finds the picture, is like catnip for women. You act like you’re unaware of your own value, and then she sees later you’re being underutilized. It’s like she just got inside information on a stock that’s about to triple in value, and she can buy now while the price is artificially low.

Will the mudman bang that girl again? Yes. I’ll give you three guesses what she’s going to suddenly have found an interest in talking about during their next date. Now his job is to hem and haw, “I do it for the art, not for the money,” and she will continue her persuasion efforts. At the risk of oversimplifying, I think a lot of game is about simultaneously signaling both talent and unawareness of that talent.

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I find the playful retort to the question “what do you do?” is great because it opens up all kinds of new interesting threads to the conversation.

So instead of droning on and on about your lame job, you can have a fun conversation about what it’s like to be a male escort in the big city and so on.

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“What do I do? I go to bars. I try to eat three square meals a day. Every once in a while I shower. I mainly just try to maintain a healthy living style. What do you do?”

Then she said, “No, for work!”

“OOOhhhhh, well I ride on the back of a truck and collect Recycling.” This conversation went on as I sat there doodling on a bar napkin. I don’t really pay attention to girls. Less is more. I was more interesting than my friend explaining his financial job.

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It’s not logic that’s at fault – logic clearly tells us that trying to prove to someone that you have a certain quality often means you don’t have it.

Its the same with acting Alpha in general. If you try too hard to act Alpha, you paradoxically manage ering to convince everyone that you aren’t Alpha.

Trying too hard to convince anyone of anything merely shows that you dont possess that thing.

I think this point is extremely crucial in mastering Game and recieves far too little attention in the Game community.

I am sure there are many guys out there who readd Roissy for a bit and go out acting super-macho and cant understand why women laugh at them instead of falling madly in love with them like the Game people say, and dont realize that a true Alpha does NOT NEED TO PROVE HIS ALPHA STATUS by impressing anybody.

These guys have just been given bad advice by someone who has a partial and slippery grasp of what true Alphaness entails, and probably get discouraged with Game when all they need is to understand it better.

One of Roissy’s “rules of poon” actually counsels you to act more arrogant and confident that you might feel – yet what is this but encouraging guys to go out try too hard to show everyone they are Alpha? It’s a disaster.

Being OVER-confident and OVER-arrogant is just as bad as being too little of those things, and this absolutely crucial point MUST be addressed better by the Game community. Being over-confident or over-arrogant merely looks like you’re insecure and trying to prove what you dont have.

Being vague about your job is a good point; one of the classic PUA tactics. I also agree with the poster “Chris” that in a lot of ways more men are on to whole “what do you do?” question does not mean she wants to get to know you but rather she is trying to put an estimation on your income. I suspect too that the more clever gold-diggers are using more subtle means to get enough info from you about your work.

If however a chick keeps asking and insists “Come on I want to get to know you” then simply tell the trollop you just got out of prison. American culture is Thug loving culture. This is especially true with the prettier ones. The prettier they are the more they go for violent abusive men anyway. We all know this, it’s just now becoming something people are willing to talk about in the open.

People value things (and information) they have to work to obtain. If she quickly gets annoyed, you’re probably better off without her because she wouldn’t have asked the question (what do you do for a living) if she didn’t already have one in mind. If your answer is anything less than a high-earning job, you’re SOL.

Ironically, women with the mercenary mindset won’t be able to land socially desirable men with choices (money or not), as they would actually prefer, but only socially undesirable men with too much money to waste on hookers, ahem, I mean women. Women who are happy with this arrangement usually have stopped caring much about sex a long time ago.

Even guys with fantastic jobs would do a lot worse to answer this question directly/truthfully. Roosh is exactly right, lying tells her that you don’t give a shit about what she thinks of you. It works. Only when guys are putting that pussy on a pedestal do they feel the need to impress women. Trust me when I say that being an i-banker, attorney or even a doctor does not help you pull more and better quality trim if the rest of your game isnt in place. I have friends who are all of these things, and I know that their jobs get them a minute or two more of attention of the average girl/non-mercenary at most. This is usually to give the guy the benefit of the doubt despite their obvious lack of game, which quickly results in the girl confirming her suspicions.