With the onset of the digital age, we have been witnessing many changes in lifestyle and preferences. While people back in the old days s...
With the onset of the digital age, we have been witnessing many changes in lifestyle and preferences. While people back in the old days settled for the usual traditional careers and preferred a 9 to 5 job, people these days yearn for challenges and options that would shape their life and even add excitement to it. We see more and more of unconventional careers popping around, and people have broken the monotony and are truly enjoying their careers instead of just struggling to pass their time and earn a decent buck.
People prefer to start up their own businesses, taking it from small to eventually achieving big success in due time, and these startups and careers are not the usual ones, but have become more and more fun and exciting. From pet-sitters to travel bloggers and food critics, a number of interesting career options have cropped up and one can make a living out of what they truly love.
Matchmaking is one such career that you can opt for and have a great time while working on it too. If you are social, good with communication and have a genuine love for people along with a knack for matching people together, matchmaking can become for your forte. Ideal for those who want to be their own boss and have their own terms when it comes to work, matchmaking is a perfect career.
Matchmaking requires you to mingle with people, and when you meet someone single you should be able to instantly pair them up in your mind with another single person you know. Engaging with people, getting to know their interests and suggesting someone to them to date does not at first sound like a career, but there are professional matchmakers who are earning well through this venture and you can too.
You have to be a good debater certainly, and when one comes to you with their list of what they are looking for in a person, you should be able to guide them and show them the real, practical and honest side to their requirements. Matchmaking isn’t something that you can learn or go to a workshop for, you need to have the natural knack for it.
If you have been playing cupid for your friends and acquaintances for a while, it is now time to think how you can make it a career for yourself and also make your matchmaking services fun and out of the box. After setting up your business on an app or a website, you have to look at ways on how to appeal to your clients. There are numerous dating sites and apps in the market and you have to think of ways to add a spark in your services.
Whether you are setting up a social media page or a website such as WeLoveDates for your services, you have to set yourself apart. People with similar interests should be matched together and you can suggest them to go on interesting dates, such as adventure lovers can go on a scavenger hunt, or Game of Thrones fans can play the trivia for the show for their first dates. A chef or a food lover can cook something easy with a date, or nature lovers can take a hike together, you just have to think of something interesting for them. Your matchmaking should not just bring the two people with the same interests together, but you can keep a sharp eye on details and set people with the same quirks together too. That may work even better than setting two people together who say, perhaps enjoy reading books.
One of my friends recently watched the movie ‘A Perfect Date’ and talked about her desire to specify a person’s personality before going on a date with them. If you are a matchmaker, you can also have your clients have a chat with you first, detailing every thing they are looking for, and you can keep that in mind before arranging a date for them.
Matchmaking is generally not time consuming, and is perfect for you if you are a stay at home parent or have other obligations around the house as well. You just need to have a strong social circle and the time to meet and mingle with people. Along with that, you should be approachable and friendly so that people feel comfortable in your company and discuss their potential partners with you. If you have never tried your hand at matchmaking before, it is advised that you should casually pair up two singles together and see how it goes from there, and eventually think of making it a career for yourself.
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