At the time of Brownlee's graduation from Victoria College, the path of entry to his chosen profession, law, was through three years of articling instead of law school.
In 1959, medical schools accepted very few women, only those able to answer the daunting question "why should we educate you when you will probably marry and leave the profession?" Law schools were accepting only the most determined, and Harvard Business School accepted none.
Those in the professions — law, medicine, accounting and so on — have it even easier.
Students go on to all kinds of professions — law, business, filmmaking, and so on.
They all gave up promising careers in traditional professions (law, consulting and academia) to plunge into an uncharted destiny.
Many companies are taking a more relaxed attitude to dressing, but in some professions (law, accountancy) you either get suited up or booted out.
Even the staunchest critics of college concede that a diploma is still necessary for many professions — law and medicine, clearly, and in many cases, for a Fortune 500 executive, too.
During my 15 years in parliament, I have become very familiar with a Westminster elite that is sometimes too enmeshed with the elites in other professions – law, media, business – to be in a position to advance the cause of ordinary people.
-- practitioner of two of the world's most-hated professions, law and politics (but his dad was a bartender!) -- grabbed the gold medal for bogus populism (and crappy grammar) by proclaiming, "welders make more money than philosophers.
It's hardly an accident, 70 years into this television thing, that producers of comedies and dramas turn year after year to the same core group of professions: law enforcement, medicine and the legal system.
Law degrees from McGill, Harvard, but strong distaste for profession: "Practicing law is the opposite of sex.
