It strikes me as more than coincidental that in the late 1940s the psychiatric profession took off in the USA as never before.
A New York Times magazine story about women who've left the workforce to raise children — and are now struggling to get back into their professions — set off a new round of debate on the gender pay gap, work success for women and the career-home balancing act.
When I inevitably end up jobless, I have the luxury of being able to delve into this filofax of personal tragedy, pick one of the base pay professions off my CV (turns out haunted house managers are way more into experience than a 2 1 in Business Management) and have another crack at it.
In her essay "In the Name of Love," Miya Tokumitsu argues that the mantra "Do what you love, love what you do" devalues the "arduous, low-wage work" of many Americans, and "reinforces exploitation even within the so-called lovable professions, where off-the-clock, underpaid, or unpaid labor is the new norm".
Why don't middle-aged people who are at the height of their professions, well-off, paying large amounts of tax, generally part of the establishment, become Conservatives any more?" It may be hard to picture now, but he continued to deliver "small bundles of the Socialist Worker to embarrassed people who'd filled in a form", throughout his first job as a reporter on the Swindon Advertiser.
Although the MLL has many part-time players who work in other professions on off days, Massey was the first lawyer.
It's time for journalists to honor the good name of their profession and take off the kid gloves.
By tiptoeing around the strongest firms, they have planted a flag on the margins of the profession without setting off alarms.
Seven years ago this autumn, practically the entire mainstream economics profession was caught off guard by the global financial crash and the "worst panic since the 1930s" that followed.
Returning to Ceylon in 1946, he worked briefly for a Colombo law firm, but after the death of his mother he abandoned the legal profession and set off on two years of restless travel.
