How do I use attractiveness to my advantage?

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In my estimation, this is way more difficult than it looks. People attack and sabotage the careers of beautiful women out of jealousy and the perception that it must be easy for them.

The first bit of advice I have for you is to avoid anything that looks like a service job. That means no waiting tables, no working as a receptionist, don’t go into bartending or work behind the counter anywhere. These jobs are designed to suck you in and make you feel comfortable, wanted, and accepted.

The downside is that there’s a strict earning ceiling. Society has set these jobs aside for women looking for a man to marry. If you start down this road, you’ll eventually find all other professional options for you to be practically cut off, you’ll need to start all over in a new career before you can climb the ladder. Don’t, just start a real career now.

Instead you want a job where you are depended on for your skills rather than your looks. Good fields for this are sales and management. My extremely attractive girlfriend is an IT project manager and she’s among the most well-paid in her cohort if not the best-paid.

You need to get good at the skill part of the job, but you can rest easy knowing that your attractiveness will “fill the gap.” You will need to adopt a “can do” attitude, and be willing to operate in a world dominated and operated by men. This means if and when they start trying to cross boundaries you don’t want them to cross, you need to handle it gracefully and with humor.

My girlfriend has to regularly fend off advances from her coworkers. Recently she was sent an unsolicited dick pic by one of her coworkers. I really didn’t want to see that. Don’t report sexual harassment, learn to laugh it off. If you start getting people fired, your colleagues will stop trusting you and you’ll start finding yourself getting frozen out.

If you can do all of this then you have successfully learned how to navigate the professional world as an attractive female. All that’s left is to succeed. Your attractiveness plus your attitude plus your skills will ensure that you get noticed. Once you gain entry into the boys club and prove yourself, then you’ll eventually earn enough clout to deploy a “bitch shield.” Stop humoring unwanted advances and stop playing nice.

You’ll need this to break through the glass ceiling that keeps women from advancing past a certain level. As long as you’re nice and friendly, you won’t get taken seriously as upper management material.