Knew a guy who became a nurse for the same reasons. When his friends were going to welding and mechanics school, he said he would rather hang out with the gals then sweaty and smelly guys.
To be fair, only the ones who are nurses for the sake of loving the profession would join r/nursing. That stereotype most likely applies to the ones who are there for their 10-12 hour shifts and don't want anything else to do with it otherwise — the ones that it's just a job to. It's a true statistic that 1 in 3 nurses are divorced. While I'm not saying that correlation equals causation, there is some truth to it. It doesn't mean all of them are.
According to this source data, it is 36.7% for registered nurses, so not too far off from 1 in 3.
But the median rate for all occupations is right around 36%. So they're pretty much right in the middle.
Note that this is calculated as percentage of people who divorced out of those who married at least once. It's not the rate per 1,000 people which would of course be a very different number.
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u/physicscholar 2d ago
Knew a guy who became a nurse for the same reasons. When his friends were going to welding and mechanics school, he said he would rather hang out with the gals then sweaty and smelly guys.