| Article: | CARTER: If love were a job I've had this strange idea brewing in my head for the last few months that seems to have come out of nowhere. Or else it's a product of all those dating Web sites that make falling in love seem as easy as filling out a personality profile, or Reality TV's quasi-game shows where instead of winning a new dining room set you meet your future husband or wife. But as the boundaries between having a relationship and more neatly structured transactions, like, say, opening a checking account, get blurred, I've started to wonder what it would be like if dating was more like holding down a job. |