In addition, when I look at the unemployment statistics, engineers are usually amongst the highest employment professions in the country.
The document was sorted by income level with the highest income professions at the top of the list.
Slaughterers, butchers, and farmers, with 21.6%, 17.64%, and 17.46%, ranked the highest among professions, respectively.
On a like-for-like basis, except for parts of the US, our entry standards are the lowest; attrition rates the highest; our profession the most over-managed, demoralised and unhappy.
So naturally when I saw that the highest paid profession on the list was "computer scientist," that's what I wanted to be.
In Singapore, the government selects the top 20percentt of graduating seniors, and offers them a full ride, and a stipend to be trained as a teacher, as they consider it the highest valued profession.
This is why liberal education is the élite type of college education: it's the gateway to the high-status professions.
Are Hispanics and African-Americans now adequately represented in the leadership of big corporations and in Congress and in the high-status professions, and can we stop fretting about diversity?
South Asians have quickly risen to great heights in many of the high-earning professions, yet there are only a handful of prominent South Asian arts organizations, most of which are severely underfunded.
William Manchester was a newspaper reporter who became a history professor, and in this account of Kennedy's assassination he combines the highest standards of both professions.
