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Looks like there's a correlation with long hours and isolated work environments away from other peer groups. Doctors for instance are well known for pairing up

Looks like there's a correlation with long hours and isolated work environments away from other peer groups. Doctors for instance are well known for pairing up during the residency grind since it dramatically drops their interactions with anyone outside of their residency program and also occurs during their late 20's. A perfect storm.

rayiner 11y ago
The top 5 is also a list of professions requiring extensive graduate education. There is a lot of pairing up in medical/dental/law school.
- sendos 11y ago
  FYI, the ranking has changed. The results depend on how the lines of the form "1, 10, BLANK, BLANK, 2.04E+07" are interpreted. Physicians are still up there, but some other occupations have also entered, such as "Farmers, Ranchers"
dominotw 11y ago
>Looks like there's a correlation with long hours and isolated work environments away from other peer groups. Doctors are prestige seekers who see marrying a software programmer as a step down.
- shitgoose 11y ago
  you are not a doctor, are you?
  - rolfvandekrol 11y ago
    Not a doctor, just frustrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085519
    - dominotw 11y ago
      just an opinion based on personal experience. Have many family/friends who are doctors. many fish in the sea, no reason to be frustrated.
- ianopolous 11y ago
  I've lived with two medical doctors, both of whom referred to me, with a doctorate in particle physics but now a software engineer, as the 'real doctor'.
  - clentaminator 11y ago
    Which for me really highlights the point that, despite using the same title, the word doctor implies two completely different but equally important types of experience.
    - rahimnathwani 11y ago
      In Chinese, the common words for medical doctor (大夫 and 医生) are totally different from the other type (博士).
- dudurocha 11y ago
  I'm an Engineer working in finance and a couple of my medical doctor friends refer to me as the 'inteligent' in the group.

rayiner 11y ago

The top 5 is also a list of professions requiring extensive graduate education. There is a lot of pairing up in medical/dental/law school.

sendos 11y ago
FYI, the ranking has changed. The results depend on how the lines of the form "1, 10, BLANK, BLANK, 2.04E+07" are interpreted. Physicians are still up there, but some other occupations have also entered, such as "Farmers, Ranchers"

dominotw 11y ago

>Looks like there's a correlation with long hours and isolated work environments away from other peer groups. Doctors are prestige seekers who see marrying a software programmer as a step down.

shitgoose 11y ago
you are not a doctor, are you?
- rolfvandekrol 11y ago
  Not a doctor, just frustrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085519
  - dominotw 11y ago
    just an opinion based on personal experience. Have many family/friends who are doctors. many fish in the sea, no reason to be frustrated.
ianopolous 11y ago
I've lived with two medical doctors, both of whom referred to me, with a doctorate in particle physics but now a software engineer, as the 'real doctor'.
- clentaminator 11y ago
  Which for me really highlights the point that, despite using the same title, the word doctor implies two completely different but equally important types of experience.
  - rahimnathwani 11y ago
    In Chinese, the common words for medical doctor (大夫 and 医生) are totally different from the other type (博士).
dudurocha 11y ago
I'm an Engineer working in finance and a couple of my medical doctor friends refer to me as the 'inteligent' in the group.