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.
"I was told I would have a proper profession," said Jacques Dallaud, whose parents could neither read nor write but put their mark to a piece of paper placing him in the care of social services in 1965.
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.
It wasn't thought to be a proper profession, despite James Stewart's being a Princeton man". By his junior year, Waterston knew that no other career, acceptable or otherwise, would do.
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.
And though recruitment can be hard – publishers are getting ever stingier, fees ever lower, lead times ever shorter, proper understanding of the profession ever harder to come by (nobody seems to realise that even a seemingly trivial repagination can leave the indexer having to start from scratch) – this is a body of professionals that is long overdue proper recognition.
Lionel Logue, the speech therapist played by Rush, was trained as an elocutionist, a now-extinct profession devoted to proper vocalization and public speaking.
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).
