I'm not sure if the PUA community is really the right place for me, but there may be a few things I could learn from it. Couldn't hurt to try.

I'm in my early 30s, I have a decent job that's a bit higher in prestige than it is in paygrade (so while I can often impress girls with what I do for a living, I can't impress them with fancy cars and expensive luxuries), I like to think I'm smart and funny, and I've been told many, many times that I'm physically attractive. And I once stumbled ass-backwards into a one-night-stand (my only one to date) with a very cute, sweet girl at a networking conference for young professionals. So while I've never really tried to play the PUA game, it seems reasonable to suspect that I have at least some aptitude for it.

And I'm not entirely sure if I want to start doing the PUA thing, y'know? Racking up massive numbers of conquests holds only a very superficial appeal for me. I suspect I'd find it pretty unsatisfying if I tried to sustain it as a lifestyle.

But there is one situation -- one that I happen to be in right now as I type this message -- where having solid PUA skills could really come in handy and make certain unpleasant nights a bit more pleasant: Traveling alone on business. I don't mind the traveling, I like getting out of my own little world, and I especially like seeing new places I've never been to before. But, holy fuck I hate hotel rooms. It's like they try to make them feel home-y, but the attempt is so ridiculously superficial that they end up having exactly the opposite effect. It's almost like they're mocking you with their mediocre, nondescript paintings of horses that not even the artist could likely tell apart from a similar painting by a different artist. "Ha ha, you're far from home, you don't know anybody here, you don't know your way around this town, and you have no idea where the hot single local women are. There's nothing you can do but stave off frustration until you go to bed, and you probably won't sleep very well anyway."

It's pretty much the one situation in which I wish I had mad PUA skills, so I could go out and find a girl to keep me company in my soul-crushingly lonely hotel room. In every other aspect of my life, I'm content to be a non-PUA who manages to get laid occasionally via non-PUA methods, which generally don't work fast enough to address the hotel room problem. And since I'm generally disinterested in developing PUA skills elsewhere in life, I lack them here.

It's a bit of a catch-22, and it kind of sucks.