Jobs That Are Only Common In Romantic Comedies

Romantic comedies aren’t exactly known for being the movies that are the most realistic. The way people fall in love so easily and how everything ends up alright in the end, it’s almost fantasy or science fiction. I feel like Star Wars has more things in it that make sense than romantic comedies do.

One of the things that rarely makes sense in romantic comedies is how everyone seems to be successful. If you’re not a doctor, you’ve somehow failed at life – and that’s also probably why you’re not finding true love. With the success often come a list of jobs that almost literally no one does in the real world. Either it’s an exclusive job that only a handful of people do, or it’s not an actual job but the movie decided to turn it into one. Let’s take a look at some of the worst offenders below.

Architect

Tell me, how many architects do you know? You usually meet your first one when you’re building a house, and you never meet one afterwards. Unless you’re getting a second opinion on your house. It’s a niche line of work that has a lot of unemployment in it. Considering how a single architect can easily deal with multiple projects and not everyone has the luxury of being able to build their own house, it only makes sense that there’d only be a handful of them. And there’s a lot of romantic comedies out there that star successful architects: The Lake House, Three to Tango, The Last Kiss, Sleepless in Seattle, Love Actually, Just Like Heaven, (500) Days of Summer, … Those movies alone probably have more successful architects in them than most small countries!

Musician

Again, successful musicians really aren’t all that common – and they usually have very little difficulty finding someone to start a relationship with. But enter the romcom to somehow make you feel sad for that one successful musician that somehow really can’t find true love. It’s often used as a trick to make a character appear more sensitive than the writing staff’s ability allows them to be, and the list of movies that use this specific job is almost endless: Music and Lyrics, Love Actually, The Wedding Singer, New Year’s Eve, … And let’s not forget about pretty much every musical, where somehow every main character is a singer or wants to be one. And they fall in love with someone else that’s either a singer or wants to be one. Everyone’s a top grade musician in musicals, basically.