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Honorable Professions

 
 
Elmud
 
Reply Thu 18 Jun, 2009 06:40 pm
What are honorable professions? My oldest daughter is studying to be a nurse. She was a CNA. She took care of the elderly in a nursing home. I cannot think of a more honorable profession than being a nurse or a CNA. They should be payed more than they are.

Being a fireman is an honorable profession. All they do is put out fires and save lives, putting their lives on the line every day. They should be payed more than they are.

Being a farmer is an honorable profession. All they do is feed the world. It is a life of toil and sweat. They should not have to struggle as they do.

Carpenters, electricians, plumbers, etc,etc,etc. Those are honorable professions. They create shelters. Key word, "create". Should be able to make a decent living doing that.

There surely are other examples. Can't think of any right now.

Is it honorable to make the quick bucks without serving or creating anything? I don't know. All a matter of opinion I suppose. No sense in creating or serving when you can do much better by putting the ball in the hole. But, you have to be an exceptional put the ball in the hole person.

How about taking advantage of all those foreclosures, use the float game and buy for nothing and sell for much? Make the quick bucks. Create the cash. Saw that one on tv. Man shows you how to get rich quick using his buy low sell high method. He's makin the cash. He wants you to as well.Smile

Make the quick bucks. no sense in breaking your back all of your life creating things. Get out there and get that payola and let the slugs do the hard work. you can do the honorable thing and throw them a few crumbs every now and then.
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Aedes
 
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Reply Thu 18 Jun, 2009 07:01 pm
@Elmud,
I don't think professions are honorable or dishonorable. It's people and their decisions who are. I suppose being a hit man is dishonorable, but I'd hardly call that a "profession".
Elmud
 
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Reply Thu 18 Jun, 2009 07:13 pm
@Aedes,
Aedes;70202 wrote:
I don't think professions are honorable or dishonorable. It's people and their decisions who are. I suppose being a hit man is dishonorable, but I'd hardly call that a "profession".
I dunno Aedes. Maybe I should look up the definition of the word honorable. When I think of nursing, what they do to comfort the sick and suffering, to me that is most honorable. I guess the key word i would use would be "service".
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Krumple
 
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Reply Thu 18 Jun, 2009 07:19 pm
@Elmud,
I don't think you can call doctors or nurses honorable either. There are doctors who expect to treat peoples symptoms and not actually help them to prevent illness. Then there are the occasional nurses whom purposely kill patients being treated in hospitals.
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Aedes
 
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Reply Thu 18 Jun, 2009 07:38 pm
@Elmud,
Krumple, the occasional bad apple isn't cause to impune an entire profession. There are priests who molest children, there are firefighters who become arsonists, there are soldiers who violate human rights, there are mail carriers who steal mail, etc.

The job description for a doctor (if I, having taken the Hippocratic oath myself, can generalize), includes activities which when performed with good intentions one should consider "noble". We counsel, advise, comfort, heal, etc. It doesn't always work, but that's not because of ignobility, but rather because medicine isn't magic. The same is true for nursing. I remember when my wife was post-partum, and we were exhausted there with a post-c-section mom and a newborn baby, and having good, understanding nurses made a world of difference for us.

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Elmud;70207 wrote:
I dunno Aedes. Maybe I should look up the definition of the word honorable. When I think of nursing, what they do to comfort the sick and suffering, to me that is most honorable. I guess the key word i would use would be "service".
I agree to a large extent -- but in my mind people who go into nursing have to some extent self-selected because they are noble people. Sure, people go into nursing because there is a lot of job security and a good lifestyle, but there can't be a complete incongruity with what the job requires.
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