Yes, it does exist to push product, and the sales-averse among us may feel that this makes it a sleazy, soul-less profession.
She also talked about the time she spent working as an English instructor for 15 years just to make enough to get by, the times she tasted frustration and disappointment after choosing a gender-less profession to 'write,' and the times she was wounded by her loved ones.
Mehta argues that data-driven reform has again mandated discredited policies because respected professions "colonize" less respected professions.
Tunnelling is less a profession than a calling, Herrenknecht says.
But what if one of them had had to slope off and join a less celebrated profession?
Through the 18th and part of the 19th centuries, scientific discovery was less a profession than an avocation practiced by passionate generalists and amateurs.
To his players, Ryan always explained that professional football was less a profession than a brief vocational interlude; for survival in this strange and turbulent "blunt-force trauma" world, he advised them to acquire "skin like an armadillo".
He believes fans would be more likely to "buy-in" to such a concept and that players would enjoy a less demanding profession.
17 (8.7%) respondents answered that they were ready to give up medicine for a less dignified profession (e.g. taxi driver) if need be.
Then I think over time there was an erosion of that, and it became a less attractive profession, poorly paid, long working hours, inflexible working hours, it lost its lustre and then young women looked for other career opportunities rather than doing nursing.
But it's hardly unusual for members of less pedigreed professions to adopt the vernacular of more prestigious ones, said Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.
