No Compromise

See there are few things that I am willing to be bluntly honest about. Lord knows I try but I have bad luck when it comes to relationships. The result of which is some schizophrenic tendencies where one minute I am certain I would never date someone from that city or that ethnic group, etc. 

While I embrace compromise and am genuinely interested in judging people based on how they treat me as a persona and not by any of the other societal labels, I have to be honest that every time I try and veer away from my checklist I end-up getting burned.

The one constant thing is that I still do not want to date someone who doesn't have a job, I find that my other "labels" on the checklist get compromised a lot.

Does this mean one should just keep the checklist intact forever? No compromise?