In these hopey/changey troubled economic times, it’s useful to take a moment to re-examine your life choices. Ours is no longer a society in which one can expect to enter the workforce at a ripe young age, serve one’s company faithfully for a few decades, collect a gold watch, and retire to an easy chair to bask in the glow of a job well done. To some (like your parents), that’s a damn troubling thought. But to the rest – the lucky commitment-phobes who’ve discovered the undeniable benefits of a workforce in which flexibility is prized above all else – this is a welcome break from the monotony of the single-career lifestyle.

While a sudden opportunity to switch careers might stress your bank account, it allows you the luxury of choosing your next job based on important factors such as how many days you’ll get to “work from home” and, most critically, how much it will improve your social life. I can’t do much for the first, but I'm here for you with the second:

Enjoy this, your guide to the top 3 careers girls dig that you may not have considered the first time around....

3. Magician

Magic: it works for Harry Potter and the sultry David Copperfield, and it could very well work for you. Magic and wizardry may not be considered ‘mainstream’ professions, but with the right training, the perfect wardrobe, you too can disappear ladies from anywhere in the universe and make them re-appear in your house. One need only look as far as the love life of magician Criss Angel (excuse us, illusionist) or the exploits of Gob Bluth to see how much synergy the world of magic and mysticism holds, probably because women enjoy playing with wands/[insert magic euphemism here].

2. Musician

This is something you should be doing right now if you aren’t already. Get a drum set, a banjo, a triangle, or a keytar, get yourself an open mic gig, and get to the important work of meeting girls, because many women in bars have little to no knowledge of the difference between ‘good musician’ and ‘guy who seems somewhat adequately suited to playing whatever he’s playing in a semi-musical manner.’ This especially goes for dueling piano bars, which seem to attract a unique blend of almost-out-of-their-prime cougars and bridesmaids who are about to face the horror of watching yet another one of their friends walk down the aisle before they do. Translation: all of the above, and all you have to do is learn to adequately strum a stringed instrument in a pensive manner. No, Guitar Hero Aerosmith does not count. Damn, that counts me out...

1. Superhero

Super powers are undeniably the best and surest way to meet a lot of women (…or just one extremely good one if you become one of those weird, morally sound, love-struck superheroes whose ultimate downfall is his inability to abandon his love interest. That’s always how the villain gets you. Don’t do it. Don’t be another statistic!!).

If you wake up one day and can suddenly scale walls, hear people’s thoughts or fly, don’t question it, don’t fight it, and especially don’t accept the first offer you get. Now that you’re a superhero, you have unlimited options. And for the sad mortals among us, there’s always Halloween and every third Wednesday of the month at that bar you never admit you go to....but have a pretty big tab at. And everyone knows you as "that guy who sings Mandy ALL the time." *Cough Cough*

There ya go guys, don't say I never helped ya out!