Jobs Most Likely to Wreck Your Marriage
Jobs Most Likely to Wreck Your Marriage
By Aaron Crowe, Posted Oct 6th 2010 @ 2:30PM
If your spouse helps people or touches them for a living, be careful -- you might be headed for a divorce. Helping professions and hospitality workers have some of the highest divorce rates in the country, according to a comparison of divorce rates among occupations.
The conventional wisdom is that police officers have high divorce rates. But a year-old analysis of the top 15 jobs with the highest divorce rate that recently made the rounds of the Internet doesn't even list police officers among the worst offenders. Based on data from the 2000 U.S. Census, it found that law enforcement workers had a lower divorce rate than the general population.
Before we try to explain why some of these jobs might have high divorce rates, here are the top 15 professions and their divorce rates:
1. Dancer: 43%
2. Bartender: 38%
3. Massage therapist: 38%
4. Gaming cage: 34%
5. Extruding machine operator: 32%
6. Gaming: 31%
7. Factory: 29%
8. Phone operator: 29%
9. Nursing: 28%
10. Entertainers, sports: 28%
11. Porter: 28%
12. Telemarketer: 28%
13. Waiter: 27%
14. Roofer: 26%
15. Maid: 26%
The national divorce rate in 2009 was 10 percent. It's hard to know whether the above jobs are prone to more divorce or whether more unstable people are drawn to those professions. Professional dancers, athletes and entertainers, for example, have more opportunity to cheat on their spouses because they often work away from home and are surrounded by adoring fans. At least that's Tiger Woods' explanation.
Helping professionals, such as massage therapists and nurses, have a high amount of stress and work long hours, spending less time with their families. Hospitality workers, such as waiters, maids, porters and gaming workers, also work irregular hours in high-stress jobs, and come in contact with people on vacation who might be feeling a little randy and have time and money for a tryst on the job.
No matter what the profession, divorces are highest among jobs where workers face high stress and temptations, said Debra Opri, a divorce attorney in Beverly Hills, Calif.. Those temptations include other women, gambling and alcohol, Opri said.
Jobs that require extensive travel, odd hours and are high in stress can lead to divorce because the worker is away from their spouse too much and doesn't know how to deal with the stress away from home, said Ike Vanden Eykel, a Dallas divorce attorney for 37 years, in a telephone interview with AOL Jobs.
Working odd hours and then spending more time with co-workers instead of a spouse isn't the only thing that can lead to divorce, Vanden Eykel said. "One of the biggest causes of divorce is economic pressure," he said.
"When you can't make ends meet, that adds an economic pressure that you can't avoid," he said, adding that even highly paid CEOs who feel pressure at work can have high divorce rates.
Nighttime work can also lead to higher divorce rates, said Richard Fitzgibbons, director of the Institute for Marital Healing, on the Catholic News Agency website. "Those who work in the evenings are a distinct disadvantage," Fitzgibbons said, "because the marital friendship usually suffers, with ensuing significant loneliness."
Some of these jobs also don't pay well, which can lead to more stress in a marriage. Better-educated workers tend to have higher-paying jobs, which can provide less stress in marriages.
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Niiicceee...
I'm a stripper, my husband's a bartender. LOL
Hey, but 8 years...we defy the statistics! :P
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Looking at a few of those jobs I can sort of see why they have divorcerates that are high. For one quite a few of those jobs don't pay well and money causes stress. The others involve dealing with people of the opposite sex and of course the opportunity to stray (athletes for example).
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This is the main reason why wasn't a Extruding machine operator...
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I really think model & photographer ought to be on that list. Both tend to cause jealousy issues.
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Soldiering.
Those long deployments wrecked every long term relationship I had.
Garbage man? Pays good but not really bragging rights.
Male Porn star. Sorry I'm tired honey, fucked liked a bucking bronco all day.
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Hahaha "bucking bronco"...hahahaha
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I remember telling my boss (who's a lawyer) that I was told in college that the law profession has a very high divorce rate, his reply to me was...."Whatta ya mean? I've only been divorced THREE times" ROFL....He wasn't kidding either...
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Austinrox
I remember telling my boss (who's a lawyer) that I was told in college that the law profession has a very high divorce rate, his reply to me was...."Whatta ya mean? I've only been divorced THREE times" ROFL....He wasn't kidding either...
I know a few lawyers (considered becoming one myself) and after knowing them I'd never date a lawyer. The ones I've known are so work obsessed and in general this idea of "I'm a lawyer". I don't date anyone with a job like this because their job will always come before a relationship. Other jobs I generally avoid are doctors and cops.
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A lot of those jobs seem to be low paid, and they're the kinds of jobs I tend to think of as being done by younger people. I hear divorce rates are higher if you marry young.
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I love that telemarketers made it on the list. XD
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^My friend is a telemarketer and fucked some girl he works with after hours in his cubital. She is married haha.
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Kellydancer
I know a few lawyers (considered becoming one myself) and after knowing them I'd never date a lawyer. The ones I've known are so work obsessed and in general this idea of "I'm a lawyer". I don't date anyone with a job like this because their job will always come before a relationship. Other jobs I generally avoid are doctors and cops.
I would definately try to avoid dating police officers....yes in my college class (criminal justice course) my teacher said cops have some of the highest rates of divorce, suicides, and domestic violence...I do not know the actual statistics...but...yes...I believe this could be true...
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Austinrox
I would definately try to avoid dating police officers....yes in my college class (criminal justice course) my teacher said cops have some of the highest rates of divorce, suicides, and domestic violence...I do not know the actual statistics...but...yes...I believe this could be true...
My parents had a lot of cops as friends and almost all of the marriages ended or there was cheating. It's a stressful job and it does wreck havoc. I am definitely not surprised they have high rates on violence, divorce or suicide.
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Last I heard, cops had the highest rate of domestic assault. But that could have changed since I read it, for all I know.
Stripclub DJ ought to be right up there at number two, from what I've seen. You don't think women can get every fucking bit as jealous, insecure, and possessive as men do? Dead wrong. Including an amazing number of dancers, BTW. Try my job for a while, you'll soon see the truth.
Which is that it is pathetic to assert that men are any worse than women in this respect.
But it should be said that dancers tend to understand the scene a lot better than 'civilian' women, the vast majority of whom could never handle getting serious with a stripclub DJ, just as the vast majority of 'civilian' men can't handle dancers. I haven't gotten serious with a civilian woman since I started ten years ago.
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I love that telemarketers made it on the list. XD
oh I could tell you some stories....