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Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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Post by mcguire »

nathcd wrote: post #8
Pasorrijer wrote: post #6

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

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.

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.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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Post by screye »

peruvian wrote: post #30
screye wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, there is an incredibly skewed gender ratio in programming. So, female programmers pretty much get the pick of the pack among their peer groups. (Not judging, just stating statistics) The other 80-ish% men in programming still need to find love somewhere, so they cast a wider net.

Makes sense! Just surprised — obviously love > all, but I'd prefer to date someone in a different field of work myself.

Makes two of us.

Tech communities are all-encompassing to begin with. Tech cities, tech friends, tech hobbies, tech side-projects..... I need out of this echo chamber from time to time.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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Post by wanderingmind »

jlawson wrote: post #34
mensetmanusman wrote: post #33

This will be kind of skewed towards the wealthy, as marriages are becoming less obtainable by the lower classes.

Did the price of marriage paperwork go up or something? How can a marriage be "less obtainable"?

There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.

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Post by lostcolony »

jmknoll wrote: post #24
lostcolony wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So 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.

Good catch. I didn’t see the bottom axis. Edited my comment accordingly.

On 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.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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Post by micromacrofoot »

wanderingmind wrote: post #35
jlawson wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did the price of marriage paperwork go up or something? How can a marriage be "less obtainable"?

There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.

I 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.

Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples

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Post by lowkey_ »

wanderingmind wrote: post #35
jlawson wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did the price of marriage paperwork go up or something? How can a marriage be "less obtainable"?

There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.

Marriage licenses are like $100 — are you confusing wedding and marriage in this? (i.e. it should be that marriage paperwork is not too expensive, but a wedding is unaffordable)
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