Sentence examples for a real profession from inspiring English sources

"I wish I had a real profession, something like the music business.

"But it's a real profession, and there's a way to do it well, with self-respect".

This time around, social work feels more like a real profession.

"Maybe it means redefining volunteer in such a way that it's still looked upon as a real profession".

My father didn't actually encourage me in painting because he was concerned it wasn't a real profession.

The aim, said Ute Chrysam, manager of this effort, is to help the students to get a "real profession," and not just a school diploma.

It's also significant that Jack pretends to be a photographer – the real profession of the film's director – and in the final reel, the camera and the assassin's gun are conflated when a victim's head is caught in the cross hairs of a telescopic lens.

Though the son trained as an accountant, politics is his real profession.

And a tryst with a beautiful Brazilian roommate ends when he wanders, intoxicated and badly shaved, into a strip club and discovers her real profession: "Not only had nobody bothered to tell me that I was living with, and occasionally having sexual intercourse with, a prostitute, but apparently nobody had bothered to tell me that I had been out all night with half of a beard".

While they worry the auditor will disallow the losses for more years, too, their claim to a real estate profession grows stronger by the year.

At a family meeting over the dinner table in Oslo when she was 12 and old enough to keep a secret, she says she was enlightened about her father's real profession: C.I.A. operative.