The phrase "alternative profession" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different career options or job paths that one might consider instead of their current profession.
Example: "After years in finance, she decided to pursue an alternative profession in graphic design."
Alternatives: "different career" or "substitute occupation".
Some have also learned how to craft them for themselves, allowing for an alternative profession.
Before asking her to take part, the charity took her to see one of the projects they fund in Africa, providing education and an alternative profession to women and children who toil in "mind-numbingly awful conditions" in a quarry, chipping rocks into smaller stones to sell to builders.
And he said, "well, oh, it being an alternative profession".
He's right; there are plenty of alternative professions for law students who decide they don't have their heart set on the legal profession.
Waitress Song finds them fantasising about alternative professions ("I could move to a small town and become a waitress/ Say my name was Stacy and figure things out") and they reluctantly turn their back on a love "that could have been" on A Long Time Ago.
Creativity used to be a term reserved for alternative professions and hobbies.
Now, for comparison, a college graduate looking at alternative professions can graduate from law school or business school (MBA) with three years of training and begin gainful employment by their mid- to late-20s.
We formulated the anonymous survey in such a way that students would visualize themselves both working as STEM professionals after having completed an advanced degree with research training in a STEM discipline and in alternative professions.
Our desired outcome was that the students would realize that work life balance would be no easier or harder to attain in research-based STEM careers versus alternative professions.
Just the simple demographics of the numbers of PhDs versus the number of future academic positions is insufficient because this does not distinguish among the broad range of disciplines and expertise represented by the PhDs and does not include the alternative professions (e.g. industry, government, etc).
Sanders is credited with inserting the licensed complementary and alternative medicine professions into Section 5101 on workforce of the Affordable Care Act.
