Another data point from same website: Divorce Rate By Occupation https://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/
Actuaries must have the lowest divorce rate because they know how much it costs!
Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
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#242Elementary 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.
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#243Does 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.
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#244As 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.
I know a SWE (not you) married to a former dairy-farmer who now does QC for a production line. Is that close enough?
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#247This 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?
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Unluckily, you cannot insure yourself against the immense risk of alimony payments if a divorce should happen.
> Unluckily, you cannot insure yourself against the immense risk of alimony payments if a divorce should happen. Of course you can. You can know thyself and know thy partner and have the maturity to understand what you're getting into, and the ability to commit despite that. EG: I know there's 0% chance that my wife and I will get divorced, not because marriage is so easy but because we're both people who are able to…
What if you were drafted, served in a war overseas and came back with severe PTSD? For my parents generation that was a real thing that caused a lot of divorces.
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definitely true. But same-sex marriages will not change that number pretty much at all
Yes as long as SS couples keep it secret. Anonymous surveys are a great way to say that you have a "committed partner" without going into details.
Even with people keeping their relationships secret, I doubt SS numbers are that high in the software industry.
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A theory I once read goes like this: in the past it was quite common for lawyers, directors, managers to marry their secretaries, which was the way for them to jump to higher social class. Now, a director making advances towards their secretary faces immediate sexual harassment lawsuit, so they choose to marry other managers/directors instead.
Is that really a bad thing though? For the 1/10 times at work where the person in power ends up having a meaningful relationship with an underling that you lose, you also have the 9/10 cases of sexual harassment that you lose too.
It's a bad thing from the secretary's point of view if a) she consents to the advances and b) successfully leverages that into a marriage with far greater benefits for her and her offspring.
Needless to say, those are pretty big ifs.