It's about priorities.
Money and self sufficiency is always going to come before women, but that doesn't mean you need to sacrifice one of the other.
But I will say, that if your taste in women doesn't correlate with the level that you are on at the moment, it may be a waste of time to be spitting at chicks. Nothing wrong with realizing you don't like the chicks that want you right now, and would rather wait until you level up, before you start getting at them. But in the meantime you can still develop your social network, meet new people, even make a few female acquaintances, and then when you get where you want to be, you will have various outlets to put your bid in.