Using an adapted, profession-specific version of the first question of the Work Ability Index (WAI) [ 15], physicians were asked to rate their own current work ability against their work ability as a physician in their own best period on an eleven-point scale from 0 10, with ten being the best work ability in their own best period of life.
Experienced health professionals from five professions were surveyed using a questionnaire listing 27 signs/symptoms.
Diego Peris, an architect from Madrid who runs the Todo por la Praxis studio says this is a different way of using their profession "Usually architecture is very hierarchical, very top-down; here, it's different, everyone gets involved".
But by and large writing used to be a profession whose practitioners, the great ones especially, died relatively young.
Banking used to be a profession, not just a business.
A German bounty hunter played brilliantly by Christopher Waltz, using his former profession as a traveling dentist with a wagon as cover, comes upon the slave gang.
Using the architecture profession as a case study, a 'deep-dive' is taken to understanding the role of architects as a central player in the move towards low carbon futures in Indonesia.
I had the occasional teacher using dad's profession as a means to leverage a point ("I expected more from you being the son of... yadda yadda yadda"), but I've generally found folk are genuinely interested and keen to understand what makes him tick.
Even exceptions — Charles Grodin as a persnickety C.P.A. who defrauds the mob in "Midnight Run," Danny Glover as a patrician C.P.A. in "The Royal Tenenbaums," Ed Begley Jr. as a sexually predatory tax specialist in "She-Devil" — still use the profession as a joke: What could possibly be funnier than a tomcatting numbers cruncher?
Using the medical profession as an example, Ericsson [ 1] described progressive changes in clinical skills after graduation.
Some people use a layoff as an opportunity to go back to school to learn a new profession, using government grants and subsidized loans to pay for tuition.
