Are you a bartender? Then you are more likely to divorce compared to a agricultural engineer or a media and communications equipment worker (these professions are scored as least likely to divorce). According to a recent study by researchers at Radford University bartenders have a whopping divorce rate of 38.43 percent, second only to dancers 43.05 percent. The researchers used census data to determine which professions had the highest divorce rates. Click here to see other professions that spell doom for wedded bliss.

Who knew working at a bar led to marital woes at home? One opinion given by psychologists is that bartending jobs require a lot of human contact and this might be the reason why extroverted people have high divorce rates. Another reason could be the odd hours on the job as a bartender. Most people work nine to five in the day while bartenders start at five in the evening and finish at five in the morning.

A variety of explanation such as economic status, personality, job satisfaction or odd hours can be given on why divorce rates are high in some professions and low in others.In the end people should do what they have already been doing, which is marrying who they want and hoping for the best. Meanwhile these studies are just fun to take a look at.