If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
I guess it's sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they're in this country, would take a shot at our military.
I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.
