Your Spouse is More Likely to Cheat if They Have These Jobs

Are people in specific professions more likely to cheat? According to dating sites for people looking for a bit on the side, yes. In 2015, married-dating site Illicit Encounters ranked its users – 970,000 of them – by profession and found a higher proportion of certain jobs. Then in 2016 their findings were confirmed when another dating site for the attached, VictoriaMilan, surveyed 5,658 female clients about their jobs. According to Illicit Encounters and VictoriaMilan, these are the jobs with the most cheaters.

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20. Retail

Retail workers made up only 1 per cent of Illicit Encounters’ customers, indicating that they were among the least likely to cheat. It could be because they don’t really have much opportunity during their work hours.

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19. Hospitality and Tourism

In the hospitality and tourism industry, Illicit Encounters found fewer people prone to cheating. However, VictoriaMilan found that those working in the nightlife environment, such as bartenders, are more likely to cheat. It seems that it all comes down to opportunity.

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18. Admin and Customer Service

People who work in admin or customer services aren’t as likely to cheat as, say, bankers. In fact, Illicit Encounters found that only 1 per cent of their customers worked in this field.

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17. Retired

Retiring is a big step and the emotional adjustment can be as hard as, or even harder than, the financial one. It’s no wonder that many retirees struggling with a sudden feeling of emptiness try to fill the void with a new, illicit love. If you don’t want to fall into that trap, you may want to learn beforehand how to adjust to retirement.

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16. Trades and Services

No, the plumber coming to "check your pipes" is not just another X-rated stereotype. People who work in the trades and related services have ample opportunity to cheat: the lonely, frustrated homemaker isn’t such an implausible fantasy either.

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14. Art and Design

Throughout history, artists have been notorious cheats and it’s not only because they had gorgeous models right at their fingertips. People who work in the art and design field tend to want to experiment and push boundaries, so cheating may come more easily to them.

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15. Education and Science

Brainy people can be very passionate and, let’s face it, smart is incredibly sexy too. For educators and scientists, admiring, starry-eyed students or research assistants may be a temptation just too hard to resist.

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13. Advertising, Media and Entertainment

The action, glitz and drama of the advertising, media and entertainment world make for an environment very conducive to cheating. When the champagne flows at an event, after all, sound judgement flies out of the window. Besides, media workers have one of the most stressful careers and need some form of release, even if it’s at the cost of their relationship.

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12. Sports

With their fame, fortune and fit bodies, sports stars have a lot going for them that could make any fan more than willing to forget the fact that the object of their desire has a partner at home. Interestingly it’s not only the athletes themselves that are prone to cheating but their managers too.

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11. Legal

The legal profession has its fair share of cheaters too, according to the married-dating sites. And it’s not only lawyers and judges that like a bit on the side either: a good proportion of cheaters in the studies were legal secretaries.

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10. Healthcare and Medical

Doctors and nurses are another steamy-romance standby that seems to be based very much on real life. When you consider that they work long hours in a high-stress environment where just a little comfort can go a long way, it becomes clearer why those in the healthcare industry are not averse to cheating on their partners.

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9. Government

What do people get up to in those bleak government offices? More than you’d think. Government workers aren’t the worst cheaters out there but you don’t have to look much further than the latest tabloid scandal involving a politician to know that it definitely does happen.

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8. Sales and Marketing

When your job entails sales or marketing, you get to meet new people every day and you have to be friendly and approachable at all times. Add a seductive customer or co-worker and you have a recipe for success – if you’re a cheater, of course.

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7. Accounting

The boring, grey accountant who is surprisingly full of passion when given the chance isn’t just a character from the movies, it seems. If you’re intent on seducing an accountant, you’ll be happy to know that they have a job with one of the best starting salaries in Canada. Just remember: once a cheater, always a cheater.

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6. IT/Communications

The stereotype of the IT/communications geek with no social life seems to be very wrong, if the married-dating sites are to be believed. However, in no other job do you spend so much time online, with the opportunity to cheat just a click away.

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5. Engineering

Engineers often have to work on projects that take them away from home for months on end and put them in the middle of nowhere. That’s when the nights get lonely and the eyes start wandering.

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4. Self-employed

When you’re self-employed, you don’t have to answer to a boss and because you choose your own hours, you can slip away for a bit of nookie whenever you want, without your partner or co-workers being any the wiser. What could make this a more perfect job for a cheater?

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3. Management and HR

People who work in management and HR are in a position of power. This means that they can easily exploit vulnerable employees but it also opens them up to being exploited themselves.

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2. Aviation

Pilots and flight attendants work long hours far away from home: a combination that makes cheating very easy. Of course they also get to meet new people all the time and the temptation may be hard to resist.

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1. Financial Services

Brokers, bankers, business analysts and other people who work in financial services are among the worst cheaters out there, according to studies. It might be that they need release in their high-stress careers or it could just be that power suits are really seductive.