I am a 37 year old bachelor currently residing in Nashville, Tennessee. I grew up in a small town just outside of Nashville, where I guess I could have been called a bit of an underachiever. By the time I reached high school, I was a bit burned out of all of the studying. One of my instructors suggested that it was because the subjects we were required to take weren’t challenging enough for me. At first I laughed at the notion, but there may be some truth to it…especially considering that my best grades came in classes such as Physics. I rarely took a book home, only taking the time to study when an exam was imminent, thus I barely graduated with a 3.0 GPA. When it came time to take the college entrance exams, I stepped up my game, scoring highly enough on both the ACT and SAT to be ranked in the top 1% of all students nationwide. These scores helped to earn a 4-year Air Force ROTC Scholarship, and I left that fall for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

I was actually rather disappointed with ERAU, and as such only stayed there for a year. During my two semesters there, I only had one instructor who actually even knew what my name was (and that was my Air Force ROTC instructor, who HAD to know my name). To each of my other instructions, I was simply the last four digits of my social security number and a body in their class. At the end of the spring semester, I moved back to Tennessee and attended Middle Tennessee State University. Surprisingly, I didn’t really miss Daytona Beach at all. Between the heat, the lack of seasonal weather, the sand, the salt, the traffic, and the tourists, I was actually quite glad to get back to Tennessee.

Over the years, I’ve actually had the pleasure of working for several different companies, including several Fortune 500 companies. My time with companies such as Dell, Wal-Mart, and AT&T has given me a wealth of experience in various capacities, including both in-person and telephone sales, consumer and business-to-business sales, small scale and large scale management, and a vast assortment of technological skills.

As I said earlier, I am still very much a bachelor. I can easily count on one hand the numbers of times that I’ve actually been in love in my life. At times, it disappoints me that I’m still single…but then at other times I’m thankful that I haven’t had to experience the bitterness of a divorce as many of my friends have. I still enjoy going out and meeting new people, but dating is no longer a priority for me. I’ve adopted the “just let it happen” philosophy. But at 37, I hope that fate doesn’t make me wait too much longer.

I have no idea what the future holds for me, but maybe I won't have to tackle it alone. Feel free to check out my blog for more information about me: http://www.cbanderson.com/

The options for a first date are as varied as the people I meet. I enjoy getting to know someone, so I would want to talk before blindly entering into a first date. Since I like making people happy, I would try to use what I've learned about the person to come up with a first date that would entertain both parties. It could be something as simple as dinner or a walk in the park, to a trip to a museum or even a sporting event. I guess the one thing I would want to skip on the first date is a movie or play, at least if that was the only thing on the agenda for the evening. In my opinion, the first date is rather pointless if you are in a location where you can't converse. That defeats the entire purpose of the first date. :)