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> Solipsistic professional existence in a largely solipsistic and male-dominated profession. That's a very isolating existence and full of wrong turns unless you make strong, proactive efforts to stay in healthy social circles, which the average mid-20s person isn't going to be scrupulously careful about doing. It's very easy to start pulling dating partners from /dev/urandom, particularly amidst the loneliness and angst that eventually catches up to you.

Yes, this is certainly a thing in the industry (software development, computer engineering). It's happening regardless of the country, culture, or native language. It's happening regardless of the industry the person creates the software for. Now as we identified the problem, can we do something about it? Dating app/website to this particular profile? (from my experience they never work). Is mid-late 30s already too late?



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