People want to know whether you are financially solvent.

Once he matches with you on a dating app, knowing whether you are financially solvent is of great importance to him.

It doesn’t mean that he wants to take advantage of you financially.

Rather, he doesn’t want to fall into a trap of dating someone who isn’t responsible with money.

Several of these men have had matches in the past who were financially irresponsible.

He doesn’t want to keep making that mistake.

Whenever he receives a new match that seems to meet what he wants in a prospective partner, he wants to establish whether the person is financially responsible fairly early.

By doing this, he quickly learns whether she is someone that is likely to be a financial burden to him.

I know that it kills romance when a guy you match with on a dating app is suddenly asking about what your job is, but he is doing it to protect himself.

He has made the mistake in the past of fully trusting a new match in assuming that she was financially responsible, only to realize that she was incapable of holding a job and had mounting credit card debt.

He wants to offset this with any new match moving forward.

Although it gets annoying to keep fielding this question when you get into extended conversation with a new match on a dating app, get used to it.

As much as it would be lovely if everyone that joined a dating app did so with good intentions, that is not the world we live in.

There are plenty of people in the world who are deceitful.

When a deceitful person gets online, they are that much more deceitful.

It is far easier to be deceitful when online than to be deceitful when face to face with a dating prospect in real life.

The online platform is impersonal.

Anyone has the ability to choose to lie about who they are online and their history.

The online platform elucidates a person’s true character.

If a person is of bad character, that is further demonstrated in how they behave online.

Online gives these people the perfect excuse and the perfect medium to lie or misrepresent themselves.

The people who ask about your job have been prior victims to these lies and deceit.

He soon learned that he could no longer give women he matches with on dating apps the same benefit of the doubt that he was so used to giving women he meets in real life.

After several negative encounters, he was forced to learn his lesson.

He wasn’t taking what he saw on a person’s dating profile at face value anymore.

From now on, he is intent on confirming and clarifying, as opposed to believing everything he sees on a person’s dating profile.

Even though being at the receiving end of questions about your job feels invasive and unromantic, these men are doing it for a reason.

He wants to confirm that you won’t be a financial burden to him.

Without this confirmation, he isn’t enthused to keep on conversing with you.