[hkmurakami]

Looks like there's a correlation with long hours and isolated work environments away from other peer groups.

Doctors for instance are well known for pairing up during the residency grind since it dramatically drops their interactions with anyone outside of their residency program and also occurs during their late 20's. A perfect storm.

[rayiner]

The top 5 is also a list of professions requiring extensive graduate education. There is a lot of pairing up in medical/dental/law school.

[sendos]

FYI, the ranking has changed. The results depend on how the lines of the form "1, 10, BLANK, BLANK, 2.04E+07" are interpreted.

Physicians are still up there, but some other occupations have also entered, such as "Farmers, Ranchers"

[dominotw]

>Looks like there's a correlation with long hours and isolated work environments away from other peer groups.

Doctors are prestige seekers who see marrying a software programmer as a step down.

[ianopolous]

I've lived with two medical doctors, both of whom referred to me, with a doctorate in particle physics but now a software engineer, as the 'real doctor'.

[clentaminator]

Which for me really highlights the point that, despite using the same title, the word doctor implies two completely different but equally important types of experience.

[rahimnathwani]

In Chinese, the common words for medical doctor (大夫 and 医生) are totally different from the other type (博士).

[shitgoose]

you are not a doctor, are you?

[rolfvandekrol]

Not a doctor, just frustrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085519

[dominotw]

just an opinion based on personal experience. Have many family/friends who are doctors.

many fish in the sea, no reason to be frustrated.

[dudurocha]

I'm an Engineer working in finance and a couple of my medical doctor friends refer to me as the 'inteligent' in the group.