zlacker

> As I got to know them, the data scientist confessed that she didn't really like the math and wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't so lucrative.

Your expectations are pretty high if realizing this led you to be disappointed. Not expectations of your SO in particular, but in general about people.

I think this is inherent to most people - they generally don't enjoy the job they do, but they do it still to pay the bills and secure for yourself some form of retirement and safety net in your later years.

>>antist+(OP)
I should clarify. I know what you mean. This isn't a value judgement on them. More that it would be awesome to have a life partner who could teach me biochemistry, or machine learning, or physics that I don't know already.

EDIT> But also, I generally don't do any job whose subject matter I don't enjoy. I'm different in this way, from most people. The concept of doing something that I don't like is very foreign to me, with all the positives and also negatives that entails.