She has a proper profession as a writer that she seems to be fairly good at.
Mr. Roye did not set out to be a photographer while growing up in Jamaica; his mother did not consider it a proper profession.
Shopwork was a "proper profession, a job with status", and by the 20th century these "independent, earning, attractively dressed young women" had become "agents of change", helping to transform the workplace and society.
The equivalent is true of my female friends with proper professions.
Choose the right profession.
Kuh's mother, an early feminist, was concerned that her partly disabled daughter should have a proper education and a profession, and she encouraged her to attend Vassar College.
By selling attractive spectacles at low prices in proper shops, he demystified the profession, uprooted a cosy oligopoly, and built up Europe's biggest chain of discount opticians, with a turnover last year of DM1 billion ($600m).
Even if the probability of paralysis is quite low, the patient's livelihood is her profession, and without proper finger mobility her way of life is put at risk.
Brigitte, who had no profession, no money, no proper English, and only a few friends, would go to the Stanwood Cafeteria, on Broadway, and sit alone for hours.
If there is to be reform of our examinations system it needs to be on the basis of proper in-depth discussion with the profession, informed by the best of all practice internationally.
It's also worth paying attention to David Chang, Pavement geek and Michelin-starred chef behind New York's Momofuku, who points out that one of these professions is more like a proper job than the other.
