"alternative professions" is correct and can be used in written English.
An example sentence might be: "Joanna decided to explore alternative professions and eventually settled on a career in finance."
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.
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).
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".
Sanders is credited with inserting the licensed complementary and alternative medicine professions into Section 5101 on workforce of the Affordable Care Act.
While it has been successfully implemented in medical, dental and nursing schools, outcome based education is gradually evolving in the complementary and alternative medicine professions.
The purpose of this project was to examine the policy implications of politically defining complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professions by their treatment modalities rather than by their full professional scope.
