Amazin - more life advice than online dating advice, but as far as your education/occupation, either own it and be confident or stop sucking and change it. Lying and always having to hide it seems like the worst solution.

Grade my profile... best ever??? It's all self made, didn't steal anything.


http://www.pof.com/viewprofile.aspx?profile_id=27808296

edit: Always open to more advice though.
Still don't have great success, perhaps I should start messaging 7s, not just 8s+ that have a good job, are well educated, into sports and have something written in their profile. Met about 30 different people in the past year and a half, about 8 of which are from okcupid(which I've only been on for about 10 months). Was dating someone for about 3 months which just ended.

I get a response from about 1/15 super hot girls 9+, 1/8 8/10s, and probably 2/5 7s. Of which I get a date about 1/2 the time I get a response. Rarely do I fail to get a 2nd date if I want one, but I often don't get a 3rd one. (I'm the king of first impressions and lasting impressions, but inbetween I often fail. Hot women don't hang around long enough for the lasting impression to take place I find)


I have an okcupid profile, but not too sure how to link it/ I think this one is better despite me getting better success on that site.

That's a lot of words bro

Your pics suck

Also, most of my dates occur as a result of me lowering my standards slightly after being frustrated for going 0/20 in responses and then going on 3 in a week with 7s and such.

Ya, but there's a joke about every 3rd line or so. Also, I don't own a camera so I had to only use photos from facebook that didn't have women standing next to me. Pretty tough, since almost all the photos of me on facebook are ones where my female friends wanted their photo taken with me.

Sounds like you have high standards if 7's are lowering your standards. But your response rate seems phenomenal, I have more of a 2-5% response rate.

As for the profile, I might have to 'borrow' a line... some of it made me laugh.

"Well I'd rather listen to you talk about yourself, but that doesn't seem to be possible yet." Funny but not sure if that goes over well...

"Grew up in a really strict agnostic household" ha.

"Also, hopefully you drink (reasonably) as my moves aren't good enough to work on the sober." really laughed here...

Overall funny but too long.

I've been told to lower my standards many times by my friends. I usually only message girls who I think I have a lot in common with and try to send a hilarious message so that may help my response rate.

You can borrow a line only if you don't live in the GTA.

Also, you left out the best part of the agnostic line.

The profile is funny, and I don't necessarily think it's too long in an absolute sense. But it is just three random lists with no internal organization, which makes it more difficult to read. Maybe you could combine some of the thematically linked list items and turn them into paragraphs?

I would also tone down a couple items in the last list, particularly those about buying cigarettes and listening to girls talk. You have plenty of jokes, there's no reason to include those that could legitimately offend people.

Also, you have a lot of requirements for women, which I think might turn some women off even when they meet your requirements.

lucky me, I moved out of the GTA area (yonge & eg) in 2010.

I do miss the food but not the weather.

For the time being, use your second pic as your main.

I would get rid of the memes and links. The average woman would probably think it's weird. The first 2+2er I had ever chatted with kept linking me to all these strange pictures with words and wolves on them. I thought he was a freak and a weird dude, but I was also intrigued.

I once switched my body type to used up and noticed an extreme decrease in incoming messages.

Do northerners actually like southern accents?

Not to be mean, but if you're overweight you might want to avoid mentioning food, especially fatty foods.

21-52? You refer to women as girls. Are you looking for someone that's young at heart?
This. Sorry, couldn't read all that.

Thanks, I tried to organize it as:
paragraph 1 : stuff about me
paragraph 2 : what im looking for
paragraph 3: random jokes and stuff.

I'll remove some of what I'm looking for.

I think an intelligent woman (what I want) would know the cigarette thing is a joke since my messaging requirements is girls above 22 and must not smoke.

edit: Also, I think removing the women talk thing would ruin #8 on my list. I used to have "Life's a b*tch, then you marry one, but I thought that was turning too many women off

might as well add, "I'm here to meet my future ex-wife."

Problem is, that has probably been read before by users and then all it gets is an eye roll.
All of mine are pretty original, only things I didn't make up I put quotes around, but still thought of the idea of using the quote in a proper context in my profile (I didn't see someone else include it in their's first)

Im from the north and I personally like a southern accent the least. I assume guys messaging you that are just saying it because they want to have sex with you and honestly dont give a **** how you sound.

The southie accent is not from the south, it's the South End of Boston, i.e. the stereotypical oafish Boston accent you'd see on a Dunkin Donuts commercial (pahk the cahh in Havahhhd yahhhhd)

Short summaries are the trend on POF. Have you tried OKcupid? I think your profile would be more effective on there.
I was commenting on his profile which mentioned it. I don't believe I've ever been asked about my accent. If I do have one, it's barely noticeable. My least favorite is midwestern, but southern is not far behind.

Oh god, that's even worse

I think it is obvious that the cigarette part is a joke. What I think might turn of women is the reference to having a "pickup routine".

I was saying that as a joke... don't include it.

the only funny message I've had a response from has been:

Title: Please keep this a secret!
So do not tell anyone about this but me and a crew of 3 are planning on taking down a bank later this week.
We need a cute getaway driver.
Can you work a stick?

usually throw in something regarding their profession, like nurse or hair stylist...

Why is this a good thing? Every week, I message several interesting women I see on OKC. I also look through POF every week and rarely message anyone, because everyone's profile there is so uninformative.

POF is a huge sausage fest. A lot of guys are just looking to bang. I also got a ridiculous amount of messages everyday, so I didn't have much time to invest on a profile. OKC>>>>>>>POF unless you just want to hook up.

Appreciate the advice. I agree. The college stuff I'll probably take down. The baseball's staying up though, as it's not 100% a lie and it's something I'm working on everyday.

The only time I ever used a generic message template was when I first started and it had pretty poor success. My profile wasn't as good then either.


Template

I know I'm not the greatest guy in the world, in fact I'm probably the last guy you would ever want to meet...but...errrr, wait can I start over?

Being into ____, ______, and _____ drew my interest. [1 sentence on say travel or sports or whatever]

[ask 2 questions].


Shortly (like 2 days) after some court ruled anti- prostitution laws had to be reworked and there was a bunch of brothel talk in Toronto I used this gem once on a 10 and got into a conversation, but I don't think she was interested. She was just very offput I guess.

"I don't know if you heard the recent news about brothels being legalized and coming to Toronto, but I no longer foresee a reason to date because of this. There is this whole hangup on the implementation and construction of said brothels though so I wouldn't mind getting to know you in meantime"

Appreciate the advice from jelly/Felecia, didn't know my profile was that bad of a creepy trainwreck. Guess all I know how to attract are nerdy culturally-aware 2p2 dudes

My overall impression from many of the female profile reviews in this thread is that they seem to infer personality into the lame profile of more attractive guys, while inferring creepiness into the interesting profiles of less attractive guys. These reviews might be actually be more helpful without pics.

Trying to dip my toe into this weird world, made a profile on OkCupid but realized I don't have a single photo of myself when I'm not drunk, ugly or both.