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Most Respected Profession/Occupation ?

jdyerjdyer Member Posts: 795 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2005 in General Discussion
What do you think is the most respected profession, based on skill in what one does, and value to society?

My Vote - M.D.
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    RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Military....
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    FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Plumber [:D]

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    cruzie27cruzie27 Member Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    hooker?[:D],.......


    just kidding,..id say police,.firemen,.and EMT's

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    bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,664 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clergy
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    kingjoeykingjoey Member Posts: 8,636
    edited November -1
    Strippers, I can definitely respect strippers

    Love them Beavers
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    sst531sst531 Member Posts: 485 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What is or what should be?
    Should be nurses!
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    gagirlgagirl Member Posts: 5,408
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bpost1958
    Clergy



    I second that

    its all about pucks and bucks
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    NwcidNwcid Member Posts: 10,674 ✭
    edited November -1
    This is definatly a matter of prespective question. I see we are getting real votes for clergy and I totaly respect that and think that religon is a good thing it dosent work for me. I dont have one skill or profession that I think is great, but a class. I think anyone who gives a USEFUL service to OTHERS even if it does benefit themselves. Professions like Militay, Clergy, Fire, Peace officers (not always LEO), EMS, Doctors, Teachers, and Definatly SKILLED labor they keep eveything moving. When I say even if it benefits them that is not a bad thing like it might sound. I am a Firefigher/Paramedic and I would like to say I do it for the "people", or the "comunity" ect, but I dont. I do it because it is fun to me, I have good hours, and "decent" pay, added benfits are that I get to help the "people" and "comunity" ect, and I enjoy that. If you are not doing a job that you enjoy, even if it serves others, you are not helping yourself, which you have to do before you can help others.

    John
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    jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by FrancF
    Plumber [:D]

    I second this. Or a welder.
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    Wild OkieWild Okie Member Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hard Chrome Plater's [:D] Long life and durability resistant to wear

    MLMorgan
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    RamtinxxlRamtinxxl Member Posts: 9,480
    edited November -1
    Respected? That's a tough one. In this age of little or no respect for anyone, it seems, as the range of answers already indicates, the field is wide open. Truth is, respected or not, ALL honorable, decent, law-abiding professions should be APPRECIATED and VALUED for their own significant, albeit different, contribution to the "greater good."

    As Nunn quoted Winston Churchill, "it doesn't TAKE all kinds, there just ARE all kinds."

    Well, to some degree, when it comes to contributory professions, it DOES take all kinds. And when a society runs short of some or another, the loss can be devastating. Think about it: A town with NO ____________________ (fill in the blank)

    Just my $.02 [^]
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    Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    Let the head not become proud for if it didn't have feet it could go nowhere.
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    cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,444 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    jd, this post screems for a similiar post. Someone has to do it - it might as well be me!



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    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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    Wild OkieWild Okie Member Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't forget teachers .There are some good ones out there. My son is a good kid,but he is one of these people that if it does not interest him he will not apply himself .IE school. One teacher saw the raw talent he had for music, took him under his wing and mentored him into a two time state champion . We hope three this year. He plays tuba. He also plays any instrument he picks up also.

    That's not the important part though. He has to make good grades to stay in band .He loves band and puts the effort into keeping his grades up.

    One teacher put him on the right track. [:o)]

    MLMorgan
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    OklahomaboundOklahomabound Member Posts: 829 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If most respected means:
    -no one messes with you, baggage handlers at the airport
    -earning power, lawyer or doctor
    -education and application of the academic to practical, engineer
    -most influential, probably teachers
    -least paid for what they do, social workers

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    1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Myself I respect no one for a chosen occupation, while the same goes for disrespecting them, there is a difference for having a respectable job, and being a respectable person
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    gun_runnergun_runner Member Posts: 8,999
    edited November -1
    Nursing

    Larry
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    MooseyardMooseyard Member Posts: 2,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Attorney!

    "My faith, my country and my family will guide me; nothing more, nothing less" -Gen. Tommy Franks
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    frankcastle13frankcastle13 Member Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd say fireman
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    mpolansmpolans Member Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It all depends on how they do their jobs and their attitudes.
    I've seen doctors, lawyers, teachers, car mechanics, janitors and fast food workers who I respected.

    I've also seen all of the above who I absolutely detested.

    It seems the common thing that all of the ones I respected had was some sense of pride in their work and did their jobs to the best of their abilities.

    Granted, slapping together a cheeseburger properly might not require a brainiac, yet I've still seen some folks who can't manage to put a burger, cheese, and onions, a splash of ketchup and mustard together in such a manner that it isn't slopping all over the place.
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    nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Military (George Orwell said that we sleep well in our beds at night because rough men stand ready to violence on our behalf. That quote has always stuck with me when I contemplate the men and women of the military and they have my highest regard)
    Police (thin blue line, man)
    Doctor
    Teacher (assuming they are not some weird left-wind ideolouge)


    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
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    rongrong Member Posts: 8,459
    edited November -1
    I've never needed a Policeman nor a Fireman-
    thank God and I rank them very high as far as respect
    and value to society.
    I have needed EMT (heart attack) and they're life savers
    and tops in my book ,Thank you to all,you're great!
    BUT, on two occasions because of soap buildup
    my septic system failed and backed up into the cellar,
    I tell you ,I wanted to kiss the Septic service guy on each
    occasion after he cleared the pipes,of course I'd would have drank
    bleach after that and then kissed another EMT.
    Everyone in this world in the "services" are extremely
    important,respected and invaluable when you need them!
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    IAMAHUSKERIAMAHUSKER Member Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I cringe everytime I hear "greater good". Why is that??

    "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791. ME 8:276
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    dipitsdipits Member Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a child ( in the 40's ) it was Doctors and Attorney's .

    Today they are DETESCED!
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    gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    US Military [8D]

    Greg
    Former Marine
    2nd A N G L I C O
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    AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,064 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't respect the profession/occupation. That has nothing to do with respect.
    The person has to earn my respect, I don't give it out card blanc.

    Your mileage may vary.
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    IAMACLONE_2IAMACLONE_2 Member Posts: 4,725
    edited November -1
    Used car salesman - Otherwise you would be walking.
    Late for work, loose your job, loose your home, loose your wife & kids, all because you had no transportation to goto work.[:p][:p][:p]
    Walte
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    hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm with kingjoey, definitely strippers. Do you stuff dollar bills into your doctors' pants?
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    bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,868 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    professional sports. without it, america would be whining like babies, yet when they have it, they act like idiots on camera for thier favorite team and pay insane prices for a ticket or worship material. and the players rake in the cash. again, the wage determines the level of respect.[;)]
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    duckyducky Member Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    housewife.

    My father worked a difficult job, but my mother's job never ended. She was successfully able to get 48 hours worth of work done in a 24hr period, every day, without complaint. A true housewife / househusband (included for the times we live in) generally manages to run multiple fulltime jobs all at once. This does not include houseparents who have maids or get all the clothes drycleaned (socks included) or get takeout food every night or nannies for when they wanna go get sprayon tans and hang out with their girlfriends and gripe about how little their husbands really do.
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    chappsynychappsyny Member Posts: 3,381 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anyone who goes to work and supports their family without having to go on the public dole has my full respect. I don't care if they dig ditches or negotiate billion dollar deals, as long as they are willing to do their job.

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    adminadmin Member, Administrator Posts: 1,079 admin
    edited November -1
    Forum Moderator: Thanks Nunn!
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    buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Around here the temps have been 100+ the last few days which made HVAC guys most respected.
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    LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Military death notification team. My wife did this during Desert storm. I could never do it.

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    oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's so simple and every one of you has missed it...ACTOR/ACTRESS!!!
    God, they know everything, they are experts in ALL fields from gun control to being president. Especially California actors and actresses. They have all the money in the world which they have earned by being so important and knowledgable, they are worshipped by almost every housewife and teenager ever born, they are more popular than ANY fireman, policeman, clergyman on earth... That can't possibly be without reason now can it?? Come ON now America..We know where our heroes are...
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    spec.4spec.4 Member Posts: 897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's not truck driver. I wish the four wheelers will give us an brake and learn how to drive around us. Proven fact:75% of all truck related crashs are the four wheelers fault.

    spec.4

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    JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    MOTHER.

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    Sigmund Freud, "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis".
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    big genobig geno Member Posts: 2,685 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    AUTO TECHNICAN
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    Ding-a-lingDing-a-ling Member Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It has to be the donut makers. Without them, all cops would go to work in a bad mood. When they are in a bad mood - everybody gets in a bad mood. so lets keep the donut makers in business.[:D][:D]

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    Colonel PlinkColonel Plink Member Posts: 16,460
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by oldgunner
    It's so simple and every one of you has missed it...ACTOR/ACTRESS!!!
    God, they know everything, they are experts in ALL fields from gun control to being president. Especially California actors and actresses. They have all the money in the world which they have earned by being so important and knowledgable, they are worshipped by almost every housewife and teenager ever born, they are more popular than ANY fireman, policeman, clergyman on earth... That can't possibly be without reason now can it?? Come ON now America..We know where our heroes are...


    [:D][:D] I like to spit Diet Coke out my nose. Great post!

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