The Biggest Relationship Strainers
Your job doesn't determine whether a marriage succeeds, but some careers come with schedules, pressures, and working conditions that can make maintaining a relationship more difficult. The occupations near the top of recent rankings tend to involve irregular hours, emotionally demanding situations, public-facing stress, or physically exhausting work. That doesn't mean everyone in these professions is headed for divorce, of course, but these jobs stand out when researchers look at occupational patterns.
1. Healthcare Practitioners
Working in health care can be rewarding, but it can also be difficult to leave work at the office. Extended shifts, difficult patients, and odd schedules may make it hard to spend time with your family. Regular family time can be difficult to manage if your work schedule routinely keeps you late.
2. Telemarketers
Working as a telemarketer can involve talking to strangers all day. Combine that with rejection and pressure to perform, and you've got a recipe for stress. Coming home after a day of talking to unhappy people and having the energy to tackle relationship issues isn't always easy.
3. Massage Therapists
Massage therapists provide hands-on service all day while maintaining professionalism with clients. The job can also require odd hours and appointments that may not fit into a regular workweek. If you spend your evenings and weekends at work, it can be hard to find quality time with your partner.
4. Bus Drivers
Bus drivers have to pay close attention all day, and it doesn't get any easier once you get home. Early mornings, late nights, split shifts, and extended periods behind the wheel can lead to strange hours outside of work. When your schedule rarely aligns with your family, disagreements are bound to happen.
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5. Press Machine Operators
Press machine operators work in jobs that can be physically demanding and repetitive. They usually work around production schedules, so shift work is common. Shift work makes it hard to be home when your partner and kids are awake.
6. Care Service Supervisors
Supervisors of personal care services work with employees and clients. Coping with demanding clients can take a toll, especially if unexpected problems occur. Bringing work stress home after a rough day can make it difficult to shift your focus to family.
7. Correctional Supervisors
Correctional supervisors have to always be on their toes at work. Once they leave work for the day, it can still follow them home. Dealing with unpredictable situations can cause stress that haunts you after work. Couple this with shift work, and you've got a recipe for stressing about work at home.
8. Ambulance Drivers And Attendants
Ambulance drivers have to be prepared to pick up and go at a moment's notice. They constantly deal with traumatic situations and have to remain focused on the task at hand.
This can leave your home life oddly unpredictable.
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9. Psychiatric Aides
Psychiatric aides work with people who may be dealing with emotional or behavioral issues. It can require patience, focus, and a lot of emotional strength. Coming home to your family after a workday that took much of your emotional strength can be difficult.
10. Practical And Vocational Nurses
Nursing is known for crazy schedules and evenings, weekends, and holidays spent at work. Your partner's schedule may not match up with yours very often. Even making small plans can require advanced planning.
11. Casino Workers
Casinos are always open, so someone has to work the late-night, weekend, and holiday shifts. They can also be very fast-paced and focused on customers. Trying to fit into a schedule that your partner has nothing to do with can be difficult.
12. Bartenders
Bars are busiest during times when most people are relaxing with family or spending quality time with friends. Late nights, weekends, and holidays are going to fill up your schedule. If you're constantly getting off work when the rest of your family is going to bed, spending time together requires effort.
13. Textile Pressers
Textile pressers work as part of a production team, rolling material through machines. The job can be both repetitive and stressful at times. Since production schedules don't always take family time into consideration, spending time with your loved ones can be complicated.
14. Metal Furnace Operators
Metal furnace operators work with very little room for error while staying focused on their work. Outside of having to pay close attention, their work environment can be draining. Add in odd hours, and your relationship could start to fall to the wayside.
15. Ushers And Ticket Takers
When people go out to have fun, ushers and ticket takers are there making sure everything runs smoothly. Working at a concert or sporting event probably means working weekends. Spending your weekends at work when your family wants to spend theirs together can cause stress.
16. Home Health Aides
Home health aides work in the actual homes of their clients. Long days traveling from client to client can be strenuous. Helping others takes up time you could be spending at home with your partner and family.
17. Animal Control Officers
Animal control officers never know when they'll be called into work to help someone. Animals don't adhere to a 9-to-5 schedule, and neither do animal control officers. Spending your evenings and weekends handling other people's emergencies can make it difficult for you and your partner to have time alone.
18. Bus Monitors
Bus monitors help school transit officials keep an eye on children as they travel to and from school. They may work in split shifts that allow them some time in between school-related travel.
Living life on a schedule that revolves around someone else's school schedule can be tiring.
19. Forming Machine Operators
Working with large industrial machinery all day is hard work. Like many factory jobs, the hours can be long and may include some overnight shifts. When you work hours that continuously change, it can be hard to meet up with your partner.
20. Security And Casino Surveillance
Security and casino surveillance officers have to pay close attention to their surroundings. Many facilities need security around the clock, so late nights and weekends are common. If your significant other works 9-to-5, you may have little time together.
