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Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
- nextlevelwizard 5y agoI find it funny that for "Software quality assurance analysts and testers" by far most common partner is "Software developer". However "Software quality assurance analysts and tester" isn't even in the list for "Software developers"
- im3w1l 5y ago*Clears threat*. Did anyone perhaps inquire about Bayesianism? See, it can be explained by Bayes theorem. P(A | B) = P(B | A) * P(A) / P(B) Look at all ordered pairs of people in a couple. Let A be the proposition that the first person is a Dev, and B be the proposition that that the second person is QA. P(A | B) now expresses how common it is for QA people to have a Dev partner. And P(B | A) expresses how common it is for devs to have a QA partner. What the theorem tells us that the difference is simply explained by P(A) / P(B), that is the relative commonness of the professions. Or to be precise the commonness of the professions in the subset of people who have a partner.
- agilob 5y agoYes, same for "Interpreters and translators" marry software developers at about 2%, but software developers don't marry "interpreters and translators" - not even on the list
- bhrgunatha 5y agoI found optometrists surprising. 1. Optometrists ~11.5% 2. Elementary/middle school teachers ~3.75% 3. Dentists ~3.5%
- genericuser314 5y agoType in "Other agricultural workers" and then compare the result to other professions.
- Enginerrrd 5y agoI'm not sure quite what you're getting at. Can you elaborate?
- jmknoll 5y agoMight be a mobile display bug, but the match% between “other ag workers” and themselves is greater than highest value of the bottom axis
- MattGaiser 5y agoCan see it on laptop too.
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- lostcolony 5y agoSo it overflows the chart on desktop Firefox for me, but, the buttom axis caps out on the right at 22%. It looks like they hardcoded the graph axis, and so since other agricultural workers are at 23%, it overflows.
- jmknoll 5y agoGood catch. I didn’t see the bottom axis. Edited my comment accordingly.
- lostcolony 5y agoOn that note, bottom axis is usually x, not y. Dunno if it displays differently on mobile; on desktop the bars run horizontally; y-axis is profession, x-axis is percentage.
- davio 5y agoIt's slightly more than Physicians
- Pasorrijer 5y agoBoy, sure are a lot of professions married to teachers.
- nathcd 5y agoThe article touches on this: > Some pairings are simply volume. There are a lot of nurses and teachers, so they show up on top of the list often.
- mcguire 5y agoOn the other hand, at UTAustin when I was there, the College of Engineering had a pretty serious lock on the College of Education---they frequently had social events together, for example.
- nonameiguess 5y agoNursing and teaching are extremely portable jobs. When I was a military officer, other than people like me (was married to another Army officer), anyone whose spouse worked tended to be married to nurses and teachers because it was really easy for them to relocate since the licensing tends to be reciprocal everywhere and hospitals and schools are pretty much always hiring and are located everywhere, not just New York and San Francisco or big cities in general.
- dexwiz 5y agoLots of people are teachers. Also any of the heavily gendered professions appear this way because given a hetero relationship, there is a relatively high chance at least one person is in one of these. Lastly I know some people who avoiding marrying other teachers because the combined salary is less than many single professions.
- MattGaiser 5y ago> Lastly I know some people who avoiding marrying other teachers because the combined salary is less than many single professions. I know some teacher couples that are busy coming to terms with this problem.
- asimpletune 5y agoI was not surprised to see that programmers marry other programmers
- Spivak 5y agoThe only one that I found that was stronger was Physicians which blows out the chart.
- azundo 5y agoFTA "Other agricultural workers" is the highest at 23%.
- monkeybutton 5y agoI am! Everywhere I've worked the gender imbalance is so extreme that it'd be impossible unless all the guys are married to each other.
- Aperocky 5y agoWell it topped out at ~14%. At least it suggest women in programming quite heavily preferred their counterpart coders.
- bruceb 5y agoPreferred, or just ratio is so skewed that they married who they interacted with all the time. Men could not do that as much as the were not enough women. In this regard women devs get added bonus of working tech. Relatively high salary and likely have higher family incomes as both partners work in high earning field. Where as male devs would often marry partners earning less.
- AmpsterMan 5y agoPerhaps a disproportionate number of software devs are unmarried? My own experience actually reflects this situation. On my team, the only married people are married to other software people or teachers. The unmarried all date teachers. Obviously anecdotal but interesting.
- clircle 5y agoUnfortunately, the statistician or data scientist that put this visualization together neglected to include statisticians and data scientists in the list of searchable jobs.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI would be interested in seeing this data by age so we can see any changes in the past few decades. Perhaps profession on marriage date. I do not expect there to be decent data available for this though.
- alexfrydl 5y agoI bet the results were too embarrassing.
- peruvian 5y agoNot surprised by lawyer. Only other lawyers can understand the long hours and stress.
- munk-a 5y agoThere's also some joke in there about the only person able to write a contract to successfully bind a lawyer to a long term commitment being another lawyer.
- screye 5y agoMany anecdotal guesses are validated by this data. Doctors and agricultural workers are the obvious standouts, but I see a few more too. Us programmers stick together. Quite a high rate of marrying within the community. Lawyers show a similarly high number. A criticism of the study, is that it does not normalize by how many of these professions are in the general population. So, it appears as though software analysts don't like intermarrying. However, the truth is that there simply aren't enough of them around, they are simply more likely to run into software engineers, so that's whom they marry most. IE. This study captures P(running into a profession) x P(preference for that profession). I would love to them model P(running into a profession), so that we could get the much juicer preferences of each group for various professions.
- Izikiel43 5y agoThis is us only though. In my country, most programmers end up with psychologists, but because there are so many women psychologists and not a lot of female programmers.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago> Us programmers stick together. Quite a high rate of marrying within the community. nobody else would take our schtick ...
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- burkaman 5y agoWhy are chief executives and legislators grouped together as one profession?
- hanniabu 5y agoRevolving doors
- smitop 5y agoThey used to be separate occupation codes, but they were merged in 2005 (https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/c2ssoccup.shtml https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/c2ssoccup.shtml). Perhaps because there weren't enough legislators to justify getting their own category, so they got lumped in with the closest other profession?
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThis will be kind of skewed towards the wealthy, as marriages are becoming less obtainable by the lower classes.
- jlawson 5y agoDid the price of marriage paperwork go up or something? How can a marriage be "less obtainable"?
- wanderingmind 5y agoThere is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoI have no idea what this means. Are you talking about the societal standards of what marriage is? something else? There were 4 people at my wedding. It was only marginally more expensive than the paperwork.
- barry-cotter 5y agoYou know the big fancy wedding for 50-300 people in a hotel? That's expensive. I forget the sociological terminology but getting married has gone from a "We're getting started" to a "We have arrived" statement and the wedding is meant to show that, which is expensive.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoWell sure, but that's just one example of how corporate interests tend to push tradition into being as expensive as possible (holidays face a similar fate). They're creating social pressure to solidify their revenue. A wedding can be whatever you want. It's not "unobtainable" unless you're treating it like a class-based measuring stick.
- cwkoss 5y agoWould be nice if you could click the result professions to pivot to that as the focused profession
- Unbeliever69 5y agoIt is extremely rare for musicians to marry outside of their field. Particularly professional musicians.
- cromka 5y agoI like that Clergy was high on that list, too. Must be church musicians marrying pastors?
- aidenn0 5y ago92% of them do per TFA[1]? Also my experience is that most professional musicians are not married to other professional musicians. 1: Well if you consider that teachers could be music teachers, that still puts an upper bound of 25% or so of all musicians marrying other musicians.
- Unbeliever69 5y agoMy wife is a professional trumpet player. In the Utah Symphony the vast majority of members have a musical spouse. It is not uncommon for spouses to be in the same orchestra (nepotism anyone? fyi these positions are always filled via audition). What probably skews this data is that while musicians overwhelmingly marry other musicians, this doesn't mean that one or both don't move on to other careers to pay the bills. Also, I'm not a musical spouse.
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- spullara 5y agoHonestly the manicurists marrying other manicurists makes me think that the data is bad.
- valbaca 5y agoTFA: "Oftentimes, people marry someone in the same industry or with the same job."
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- llimos 5y agoWhen I was at university, Engineering and Psychology used to have parties together. But that might also have been because Engineering was 80% men and Psychology 80% women.
- TMWNN 5y agoI'm told that Milwaukee School of Engineering began a nursing program to even out the male-female ratio. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6onyh6/til_that_james_doohan_scotty_on_star_trek/dkj1x4f/?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6onyh6/til_th...>
- toast0 5y agoI gradumated from there... This is like the first time seeing its name here. I'm not sure I saw any nursing students while there. All of the students I knew were in the engineering program, or had started there and moved to the business program (often as an intermediate step before dropping out) Biomedical engineering seemed to have the least skewed ratio when I attended... But it's also really fing hard.
- anonporridge 5y agoI do wonder if an unspoken part of the drive (even if a small part) to get more women in tech is to get more male engineers coupled up. There are tons of single males in STEM making buckets of money, spending very little, and retiring early. Not only does that mean the profession loses a ton of people before they become senior and have time to train up the next generation, but it reduces supply of engineers and forces employers to keep salaries high.
- toast0 5y agoI imagine that would be worse with more Dual STEM marriages. I made buckets of money and retired early, but it could have been earlier if my spouse also made buckets of money instead of working in a field where the pay didn't justify the agrivation. In that case, there would have been two senior STEMers leaving the field early.
- valbaca 5y agoHonestly, kind of boring results. - Volume wins out: there are lots of teachers and nurses - Like-marries-like: most marry someone in their own profession Not that boring is bad. Just interesting that the trends overshadow any kind of special results.
- Gunax 5y agoYea, I think a more interesting analysis would have based on frequency of profession. That is, how far away (+% / -%) from a random matching is it?
- SomewhatLikely 5y agoWas thinking the same. Something like pointwise mutual information would do the trick.
- aitchnyu 5y agoYeah, this vis needs to filter out teachers and nurses since they are top results for anybody, and/or professions need to be color coded by category so I can glance at a list of 15 items and see that ${medicalprofessional} surprisingly marries educators.
- Terretta 5y agoRather than filter just those two, it could have an option to re-weight by availability.
- Litmus2336 5y agoI'm also curious what percentage of people married to people in their career field is due to meeting on the job. Are you more likely to marry someone in your profession? Or is "working together" just a very common way to meet your spouse?
- bedobi 5y agoI'm a software developer. I don't know about the rest of the community but for me someone being in tech is, if not a disqualifier, something very close to it. I have no real reason or justification! I guess maybe I'm just techy enough as is and prefer other qualities in a partner.
- maerF0x0 5y agoFunny enough, my anecdata has been the inverse. Thats is being a software engineer has been sufficient evidence for people to walk away without even getting to know me. Which is definitely interesting because I've had people say "I cant believe you're an engineer, you're nothing like the other engineers I know" outside my work context.
- tiborsaas 5y agoAre you me? Once I couldn't convince a girl that I'm a nerd. A colleague of mine dated a really hot girl from Tinder and I asked him if he told her that he's a software engineer. - Not yet, came the answer :)
- robocat 5y agoWow - that is still happening? The initial interest followed by that sudden glazed disinterest as soon as they find out your job. Or is it location based where they have formed a stereotype from previous encounters? I had thought a well paying job would be a good start to a relationship (enough money does prevent a lot of problems). Personally I don’t like judgmental people (I’m meta-judgemental) so it usually has been no great issue to be ignored.
- deathanatos 5y agoHappened to me when I was in college, ~a decade ago. As soon as the major was known, disinterest. Was judged by the cover. People still even assume that I must wear contacts, because I guess nerd == glasses, and they don't see glasses, ergo contacts? Like, nope… I just don't require those.
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- Kkoala 5y agoThere was some really similar research done in Finland, and they concluded that many of the correlations were because students of certain fields used to go to the same parties / events. E.g. Computer Science students had a lot of parties with nurses, and this then caused a correlation in marriages between those groups as well
- xhevahir 5y agoI'd be interested to see a historical comparison. Supposedly the (male)doctor-marries-(female)nurse pattern of several decades ago--or the executive/secretary one, to give another example--has given way to a situation where Americans tend to marry within their own profession/class.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoI think the # of female doctors has grown much more quickly than the # of male nurses (IIRC most medical students are women now). It would be interesting to compare stats by gender- does a male software engineer marry differently than a female one?
- sgerenser 5y agoYep, I can say with almost 100% certainty there’s a big difference between male and female dating preferences even within the same occupation. For all the talk of feminism and empowerment, women in high status fields like law and medicine are Much less likely to “marry down” to a man in a lower status field than the other way around.
- tharkun__ 5y agoThat's one way to see it. You could also say that men are much less likely to want to marry up (and not be 'the breadwinner' / 'provider).
- thrower123 5y agoIf you look at some of the trades and more artisinal professions (plumber, electrician, hvac, welding, jeweler for some examples), the top matches are often things like "non-medical secretary", book-keeping and accounting, office managers, retail supervisors, etc. That suggests to me that there's still a lot of cases where they've got their spouse running the office or the business end of a small business. That was almost a stereotypical arrangement for couples of my parents' generation.
- maerF0x0 5y agoSo tldr; Everyone marries Elementary and Middle School teachers, even that group intermarrying. Now i know who to swipe on in the dating apps :)
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI would be interested in seeing which jobs often pair together among divorcing couples.
- andrewclunn 5y agoMy guess is unemployed will be overrepresented for men on that one. Also military service.
- krona 5y agoA few years ago I read a study which analysed this but I can't find the link. All I remember was among the occupations considered, actuaries were the least likely to divorce, especially to other actuaries. I think this is simply a consequence of the intellectual statifiction of society.
- myroon5 5y agohttps://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/ https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/
- RedAlakazam 5y agoThanks for linking this, this is as interesting as the main post imo. It's funny how most of the results are as expected, actuaries as the occupation with the lowest divorce rate, while jobs as bartenders and flight attendants sport the highest ones. What's up with gaming related jobs being at the top though? Gaming managers and gaming services workers especially.
- ferrumfist 5y ago> What's up with gaming related jobs being at the top though If I had to stereotype based on US gaming companies: -Long hours -Relatively low pay -Typically located around urban centers (so a higher CoL) -If the controversies at Riot, Activision Blizzard, and Ubisoft are any indication then many game related employees are emotionally stunted and immature.
- mschuster91 5y agoNo surprises that those in exploitative working conditions - not payment, but time - end up intermarrying the most: chefs, doctors, nurses... all of them have one thing in common: extremely long shifts, frequent overtime and double shifts. When living with a "normal" 9-5 person, that person will build up resentment for not seeing their partner, for differing sleep schedules, frequent travel and whatever else comes with that job. Someone in a similar work environment however knows the struggles themselves and since they also have the same problem as their partners, there is less chance of resentment directed to the partner - hard to get annoyed by your partner working a spontaneous double shift when you have been in the same situation a week earlier!
- TehShrike 5y agoI was disappointed they didn't include "homemaker" or "unemployed" so you could see which professions supported a family by themselves.
- missedthecue 5y agoI think you'd see a lot of professions of people who culturally value a homemaker, not anything about the highest paying careers. My guess is that the list you describe would be dominated by the trades, trucking, and small business ownership.
- idiotsecant 5y agoAt the very least, it speaks to your personal cultural views of the trades, trucking, and small business ownership!
- missedthecue 5y agoObservations, really. I might add religious clergy to the list as well.
- Talanes 5y agoIt's pretty common for Pastor's wives to have a position in the church as well.
- cryptofistMonk 5y agoVery often unpaid
- Talanes 5y agoThe Pastors I've known in my life have been dual-income households, and Megachurches are infamous for using that set-up. Though I grew up in a small town with a decent mix of residential incomes, so there was no particularly poor churches in town.
- sdenton4 5y agoSoftware developers often marry other software developers, and computer programmers often marry computer programmers, but it is apparently rare for a software developer to marry a computer programmer. (Also, apparently mathematician isn't a real job.)
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoI would guess that mostly comes down to age. "Computer programmers" is kind of an old-fashioned job classification, so it's going to skew much older than "software developers".
- coder-3 5y agoOne thing to remember when interpreting those stats is the popularity of a profession in general. Elementary and middle school teachers come up a lot because either there's a huge number of them or they disproportionately responded to the survey.
- syntaxing 5y agoKinda interesting that almost all type engineers have elementary and middle school teachers and registered nurse in the top 3 groups.
- kerng 5y agoLooks like elementary teachers are the ones paired with everyone the most, even with themselves. Not sure, looks to me like the data might be off
- trutannus 5y agoMight be the horoscope effect, but I found that a lot of people in professions that marry school teachers in this chart, did in fact marry school teachers in my life.
- daveslash 5y agoI clicked random for a while, just waiting to find a job with an usually high correlation with any other job. Pharmacist is unusually highly correlated with Pharmacist. Edit: Same with Lodging managers, high correlation with Lodging managers.
- notacoward 5y agoNot apparent in the original chart, but in the follow-on bubble chart there seems to be a weirdly strong connection between fire inspectors and pumping station operators. https://flowingdata.com/2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/ https://flowingdata.com/2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/ They both seem like very small groups, though, so probably just an amusing bit of statistical noise.
- pugworthy 5y agoIt would be nice if age or duration of marriage was also put into play. Additionally how much people moved. It's not always true, but sometimes one person in a relationship is the "portable" one who can find a job in many areas.
- robocat 5y agoSome jobs have very skewed gender ratios: so Early childhood teachers don’t marry other Early childhood teachers, and relatively few Police officers marry other Police officers. I would expect people with working class jobs as far more likely to marry other working class people, and respectively for professional jobs. Hard to see from this - needs some sort of cluster analysis.
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- krysp 5y agoA few interesting ones in there, such as Dentists, who other than other dentists, most often marry secretaries and assistants.
- panda88888 5y agoI wonder if it’s the opposite. From my experience dentists tend to run their own practice or partner with one or two other dentists. Could it just make sense for the spouse to run the financial / administrative portion of the small business? Edit: s/wife/spouse
- oryourSURGEON 5y ago>Could it just make sense for the wife to run the financial / administrative portion of the small business? Do you mean to refer to the wife, or to the partner who isn't a dentist?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoDentistry is a male dominated profession. He is simply rounding up to a whole number.
- dane-pgp 5y ago> He I see what you did there.
- panda88888 5y agoTrue. I should change it to spouse.
- rubyist5eva 5y agoI married a graphic designer, much like our ur out our personalities complimented each other fairly well so we could challenge and empower eachother, and had just enough overlap that we could relate on the nerdy things that counted.
- egypturnash 5y agoI kinda really want to see how "unmarried" stacks up against other professions.
- pcurve 5y agopharmacist 12% software developer 13% Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers 16% manicure / pedicurist 21.5%
- botswana99 5y agoI’m a big believer in the engineer (logical) and helping professions (emotional). match. If you look at the category of ‘software developers’ and add up all the helping professions like teachers and nurses and others it is the #1 pairing. This software engineer has been married to his teacher wife for 29 years and going strong …
- obblekk 5y agoFYI virtually all of the professions have elementary teacher within top 3 professions... probably over-represented in data set since it would be reported through government channels more often. No opinion on your main point though - you may be right :)
- xyzelement 5y agoTotally with you. I can't imagine being married to "another one of me" - either there's not much you add to each other, or you're competing. Like you, my wife doesn't just work in another field but is very much more driven by care and emotion and logic and "justice" that matter to me. Sometimes this makes it hard to co-exist since we literally look at problems from a totally different perspective, but the resolution of that conflict (or figuring out how to coexist despite the difference) is incredibly enriching, I'd not get to grow this way with someone else.
- Xerneos 5y agoDefinitely with you on this one. Not married (yet), but my partner is a nurse (by education) and I am a data scientist. Among her (ex-)colleagues, the proportion of marrying to engineers/IT guys/... was significant.
- rpmisms 5y agoAs a software engineer married to a farmer-cum-production line supervisor, this is interesting. I knew we were a rare pairing, but this is very rare.
- StillBored 5y agoOk, I can see the lopsided lawyers marrying lawyers, but how is it that software developers are so lopsidedly marrying other software developers when something like 90% of them are male? I guess pretty much every female software developer marries a male software developer which works out to the 12% number? Makes me sorta want to see a breakdown by sex. aka "male software developer has a 6% chance of marrying a software developer vs female software developer which has a 95% chance of marrying another software developer." OTOH, its not as pronounced with nurses which have a similar problem in reverse.
- pjmlp 5y agoPlenty of female devs on most places I have worked since the .COM wave. If I am not mistaken, as per last results, most Informatics/Software Engineering degrees in Portugal have about 50% distribution between genders.
- spurgu 5y ago50% sounds crazy (and unsustainable). The women I've met in tech tend to, on average, have the same ambitions as their male counterparts - they chose this as a job/career, as opposed to having an actual passion for IT. A far cry from "my group of people" who grew up with BBS's, modems, demoscene, internet in the 90's. And I still try to hire only people who have a generic interest in computing and throw graduate resumes in the bin. Even if you discard the "passionate" ones from the equation you should end up with a ton more men, simply because of generic interest in STEM fields. Perhaps it's due to government incentives or something?
- pjmlp 5y agoThe best coders I had the pleasure to work with, were all females, so there is that. A mixed coding environment is always one of the points I assess when I get job offers.
- spurgu 5y agoSure, I appreciate a healthy mix as well. Just saying it's unrealistic to expect a 50/50 distribution of anything, in any field, expecially so in software development. Curious as you mentioned degrees, do you know if the same ratio transfers over to actual work life?
- aksss 5y agoMy anecdata from fifteen years ago was that a lot of IT males and nurse females seemed to marry. Systemic thinkers, both.
- paxys 5y agoIf the author is seeing this – having the professions within the bar chart clickable would make it a lot easier to navigate.
- m0llusk 5y agoThe coupling trends that seem interesting to me would be hard to study. In the gay community it used to be really common for white collar and blue collar guys to get together and that really helped form a power couple as one could handle the rough stuff and repairs and the other could handle the money and the paperwork. Nowadays that still happens, but it is rare because there is so much social conflict that the blue collar gays are more likely to just marry women and have men on the side because that is so much easier and the white collar gays stick to themselves. Among straight people in the San Francisco Bay Area I have noticed a trend of wealthy techies, mostly but not exclusively men, getting hitched to ordinary folks like teachers and mechanics. It seems to mostly work out well as a way of dealing with the housing crisis, but at a basic level it seems like a deeply unbalanced and unhealthy situation. Just some potentially related anecdata. Mileage will vary.
- tonymet 5y agoconclusion: people marry their coworkers often (in other studies 16%)
- devnull3 5y agoAnother data point from same website: Divorce Rate By Occupation https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/ https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/
- jackcosgrove 5y agoActuaries must have the lowest divorce rate because they know how much it costs!
- aidenn0 5y agoElementary school teachers and RNs are historically "appropriate" for females, and a lot of jobs that skew strongly male seem to pair up with those a lot.
- Aeolun 5y agoDoes this account for the total number of any given profession? Otherwise we’ll always see professions that are just highly represented in the general population.
- chmod600 5y agoThis would be more useful if happiness factored in somehow. For instance, are software devs happy with other software devs? I could imagine getting a bit tired of knowing the other person too well and blending work and home life too much. Like, maybe you want to go on a vacation without thinking about programming, but would that really be possible?
- poulsbohemian 5y agoMaybe I just missed it, but real estate agents totally run with other real estate agents. Couples, parents/ children - even friend groups. Once you are in the business it becomes your complete social group (as I sit on vacation with multiple other agents and an agent partner).
- legohead 5y agoMy second search was Politician or Senator, neither exist :\
- greedy_buffer 5y agoTry "Chief executives and legislators"
- onion2k 5y agoCareers that limit your ability to socialize outside of work, due to location (eg military) or hours (eg lawyers, teachers), lead to people marrying within their industry. This shouldn't be a big surprise.
- gnicholas 5y agoHow do the hours worked by teachers prevent them from socializing outside of work? I understand how lawyers are limited in this regard, as I've known many lawyers who regularly pulled 80 hour weeks. But I've never known a teacher who worked nearly this many hours. I used to be a lawyer and now work in edtech, so I've known plenty of folks in both professions. What am I missing?
- onion2k 5y agoMy partner used to be a teacher and she worked 60 to 70 hours a week at the start of her career. It's the main reason she isn't a teacher any more. Most of the people she trained with and worked with have also left teaching for similar reasons. This is in the UK, so perhaps it's different where you are.
- speedgoose 5y agoIn America.
- mostertoaster 5y agoWhat about those who have a spouse whose job is a homemaker? It seems fairly common within my social circles. Maybe that job is teacher, nurse, counselor, daycare provider, cook, all wrapped in one.
- mettamage 5y agoI'm most likely going to marry a psychologist. I've studied CS and psychology. Whenever I meet a woman that has studied psychology it is, on average, easier to connect with them as I can relate with how they experienced their studies. But they can't always relate with me when I'm stuck on a bug :'( Anyway! :D My point is: some of us have done more degrees, and can therefore pick and choose from multiple categories since a shared study experience does carry over into an easier dating process (my experience at least).
- qaq 5y agoIn Ukraine there are for some reason way more females on QA and Front End side of things and also in recruiting. So totally anecdotal but know a good number of couples BE+FE :) Having after tax family income at 8K+ USD in a country with median family income under 500 makes for a very comfortable lifestyle.
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- citizenpaul 5y agoEverybody got in discussions got obsessed with what jobs marrry but I found it interesting that the unemployed almost exclusivly marry each other. Definitly no welfare manipulation going on there I bet...
- godmode2019 5y agoCool data, here is a theory. Two factors education and passion Eduction: The longer you spend in education the more people you are going to know within that discipline. Passion: The more likely you would do your job for free the more likely you would date other people who can keep up in conversation with that job. Hunters marrying other hunters would be passion Doctor, doctor would be education. Psychologist being the outlier.
- hoseja 5y agoI was hoping for highlights of the full cross-marriage table, not just the diagonal.
- sweaty 5y agoMy girlfriend is a neurologist and I'm a software engineer. While both of our professions tend to marry within their communities, we got together because of a shared interest in brains. My day job involves artificial neural networks, so there's a lot of matches there. One thing that is particularly nice is that I can discuss my work with her and vice versa, so she's actually been really helpful with answering some tough questions, it makes for an interesting dynamic. Oh, and she earns twice what I do, it's crazy how much money neurologists make.
- globular-toast 5y agoThis font makes me feel drunk. It LoOkS lIkE tHiS. Is it just me?
- BatteryMountain 5y agojUsT YOu.
- globular-toast 5y agoThis is what it looks like to me: https://i.imgur.com/qd0Y6R0.png https://i.imgur.com/qd0Y6R0.png Notice how some letters are taller than others, in particular r, u, s and w. What the hell is going on here I wonder?
- BatteryMountain 5y agoOh wow! Nope mine looks normal.
- agilob 5y agoFunny to see web developers aren't software developers :D
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- cycomanic 5y agoNow here's a surprising one: Biological technicians mostly marry (~6%) "Driver/sales workers and truck drivers". Didn't expect that. Maybe the driver category is a catch all one?
- fleddr 5y agoMaybe because truck drivers are never at home, yet do provide a stable income. Some may see this as a feature, not a bug.
- sunir 5y agoI find it interesting that teachers are high on the list for most professions but conversely teachers marry teachers and other education professionals almost exclusively. Three possibilities.. There must be a lot of teachers. (Most likely) They may be the most attractive profession. (Possibly) …Or they all have secret second families at work. (I always suspected!) :)
- every 5y agoI can say from experience that bar and restaurant is quite adaptable for a couple given the odd hours of operation, the flexibility of scheduling and job mobility. We did it together for almost a decade. Not sure I would want to depend on it in the current crisis though...
- lovetocode 5y agoMy first impression is that this data can’t be accurate if just about everyone is marrying a school teacher.