If you are on the fence about your marriage, please don’t read any further. What I am writing should have no bearing on your decision to go or stay.
I just found the following information from some recent studies quite interesting.
The occupations with the highest divorce rates are:
Massage therapists, bartenders, dancers and choreographers, health diagnosing and treating practitioners, physicians and surgeons, gaming services workers, mathematicians, fish and game wardens, pile-driver operators, and first-line supervisor of gaming workers, casino workers, telephone operators, nurses and home health aides.
The professions with the lowest divorce rates are:
Religious workers, audiologists, first-line enlisted military supervisors or managers, shuttle car operators, optometrists, clergy, transit and railroad police, religious activities and education directors, agricultural engineers, and media and communication equipment workers, agricultural-sales-nuclear engineers, podiatrists.
The statistics from the early nineteen hundreds show actors and musicians at the top of the divorce list with clergy and agricultural laborers at the bottom.
Statistics are always interesting…just not sure how to learn from these exactly. For example do some people become massage therapists because that job fits into their possible philandering interests or do massage therapists just get tempted more? I don’t have a clue. The divorce rates above don’t offer reasons for the break ups. Could the reasons be cheating or something else? Could it be that a profession is just too exhausting to leave off time with anything but much needed rest?
What do you think?
Photo: Nick J Webb
