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Boy, sure are a lot of professions married to teachers.

nathcd 5y ago
The 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 ago
  On 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 ago
  Nursing 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 ago
Lots 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.
golemiprague 5y ago
The missing filter there is by which gender, obviously many man will be married to nurses because there are so many female nurses but no so many women marry male nurses.
handrous 5y ago
Teacher's a great pairing for any profession that might involve moving around quite a bit. Teaching jobs are available everywhere and you're probably not going to miss out on big bucks by being in one place versus another. Higher pay here, lower pay there, sure, but after CoL it mostly evens out. It's also damn near the only career in the US that provides roughly European levels of time off, and, crucially, pretty good (by US standards) parental leave. Time it right and you can be off for four months or so with your newborn, which is a very rare benefit in the US (yeah, I know, some super-rich tech companies offer such perks, but those are uncommon jobs). Teacher's schedule also means that parent can usually handle afternoon-but-before-5 kid stuff, if the other parent's schedule's standard and inflexible.

The 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 ago
On 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 ago
Nursing 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 ago

Lots 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.

golemiprague 5y ago

The missing filter there is by which gender, obviously many man will be married to nurses because there are so many female nurses but no so many women marry male nurses.

handrous 5y ago

Teacher's a great pairing for any profession that might involve moving around quite a bit. Teaching jobs are available everywhere and you're probably not going to miss out on big bucks by being in one place versus another. Higher pay here, lower pay there, sure, but after CoL it mostly evens out. It's also damn near the only career in the US that provides roughly European levels of time off, and, crucially, pretty good (by US standards) parental leave. Time it right and you can be off for four months or so with your newborn, which is a very rare benefit in the US (yeah, I know, some super-rich tech companies offer such perks, but those are uncommon jobs). Teacher's schedule also means that parent can usually handle afternoon-but-before-5 kid stuff, if the other parent's schedule's standard and inflexible.