


Is there a single reality television program that is as real and raw as Love Is Blind? Over the past four years we’ve watched dozens and dozens of people meet and fall in love (or some adrenaline-fueled approximation) and share their lives with not only a virtual stranger that they’re now calling their finacée, but with the entire Netflix-subscribing population of this here planet Earth. We get to know the intimate details of these people’s lives, from childhood traumas to iffy financial situations to deeply held beliefs…
… but we don’t know what they do for a living.
Okay, that’s not entirely true, but it feels true. Our careers are an integral part of our lives, what with the whole capitalism thing, so all of these singles have to take those careers into consideration. Jobs can be a hurdle to overcome, like the Seattle/Portland divide between couples — Chelsea and Kwame, and to a lesser extent Tiffany and Brett — in Season 4. Even career aspirations can cause trouble in a relationship, like with SK and Raven having to consider a long-distance relationship in Season 3 (although they had lots of other problems). Careers are a crucial part of Love Is Blind, yet the show gives us hilariously vague descriptors of what these people actually do.
If you just go buy what Love Is Blind tells you, then you’re led to believe that everyone is an executive, manager, or specialist. Literally every single person is in charge of something and they’re exemplary at what they do! Or there are the word salad descriptions like business development manager or account development manager, job titles that ask more questions. Whose accounts? Development towards what? And then there are the entrepreneurs, the business owners, the e-commerce retail specialists — which all just sound like fancy ways of saying “Instagram influencer.” What do these people really do?!
With a new batch of singles in the pods, I thought I’d finally answer the questions that I ask every time I see someone’s vague AF job title — especially since the job title that you see in the episodes frequently differs from Netflix’s own PR! By digging through some Instagram profiles and dusting the cobwebs off of my LinkedIn profile, I put on my private investigator hat (which is not a wizard’s hat) and I got to work. Here’s what I found out.