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Posted: 6/7/2017 9:28:09 AM EDT

Name a profession that is portrayed as noble and self-sacrificing, but is really not more special than any other job.

I'll start: nurse.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:29:32 AM EDT

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Engineers.

Gun instructors.

People who talk about their service in the military, when they were never deployed.

Let's see how many people I piss off

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:29:52 AM EDT

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OPs of a thread.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:30:35 AM EDT

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Teachers, since most of them are leftists.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:32:00 AM EDT

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Looking for my 11-foot pole.

(...for the threads I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole)

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:34:23 AM EDT

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DMV staff. They always act pretty noble, anyway. Like you're pissing in their cereal because you made them work

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:35:56 AM EDT

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UN ambassadors

Nobel Peace Prize winners

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:36:57 AM EDT

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Public school teachers

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:37:25 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/7/2017 9:37:28 AM EDT

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Engineers

They're right up there with crossfit people and vegans. It's like they can't keep from talking about it.

My BIL is a Dr. He's a pretty good guy but I swear people act like he's bringing people back from the dead every day. We were working on something one time and my mom chimed in "Be careful of Alex's hands, we don't want him getting hurt." I looked at her and asked if she thought I made money with my good looks.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:38:43 AM EDT

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Nurses are also overly sensitive.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:38:58 AM EDT

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Forgot this one. Public school teachers with messed up personal lives is the rule instead of the exception.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:44:07 AM EDT

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I don't even know how to reply to that.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:45:54 AM EDT

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I'll be the bad guy:

40% of the FF/LEO's out there. They do it for the perks, status symbol, and power.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:46:49 AM EDT

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My bias comes from the two teachers in my family

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:48:11 AM EDT

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Discussion Forum Moderators.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:49:52 AM EDT

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We finally get to the reason for the thread.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:51:54 AM EDT

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40% of the FF/LEO's out there. They do it for the perks, status symbol, and power.

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And what noble profession do you work in?

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:53:16 AM EDT

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Air Traffic Controller ?

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:53:27 AM EDT

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engineers...

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Who knew so many people on this board, which is dedicated to an item developed by engineers, hate the very people who brought them that device to creation? Huh..

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:54:01 AM EDT

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NRA instructors are the quintessential fart smellers of our society.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:54:59 AM EDT

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People who talk about their service in the military, when they were never deployed.

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lots of people in the military do noble things outside of deployment

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:55:26 AM EDT

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doctors
lawyers
pharmacists

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:56:12 AM EDT

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80% of cops.
80% of servicemen

80% of any group. If we are all honest,we know with whom we work.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:57:08 AM EDT

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Funny you mention it, I actually do work in that profession. I don't think this "ATC" guy does.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:57:59 AM EDT

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UN Peacekeepers

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:58:29 AM EDT

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So, you're a nurse, then?

You're pretty touchy about an offhand joke.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:59:15 AM EDT

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I don't think most people consider lawyers to work in a "noble" profession.

Posted: 6/7/2017 9:59:47 AM EDT

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The vast majority of my friends & family have engineering degrees - in all the conversations over the years no one has ever claimed to have become an engineer for noble reasons. It's always about the engineering job market.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:00:39 AM EDT

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Agree.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:01:01 AM EDT

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Sure don't. There's nothing noble about what I do.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:02:06 AM EDT

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DMV staff. They always act pretty noble, anyway. Like you're pissing in their cereal because you made them work

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The lady at the front desk of mine pretends like she's typing and can't help anybody.

Sometimes, she isn't even pressing the keys. Just tapping them enough to sound like typing.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:04:03 AM EDT

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80% of cops.
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80% of any group. If we are all honest,we know with whom we work.

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I was pretty much coming to say that in general most of the people in any "noble" profession are just there doing their jobs and that the nobility was generally earned by those that either preceded them or are the truly exceptional in their profession.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:04:25 AM EDT

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I think the real question is, what's an actual noble profession?

It's not the profession that's noble, it's the person.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:05:32 AM EDT

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All of them. People go to work because of money and sometimes it gives them personal satisfaction. But ain't no one sacrificing everything without some sort of benefit.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:05:45 AM EDT

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He has the username you should
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Posted: 6/7/2017 10:06:43 AM EDT

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They're right up there with crossfit people and vegans. It's like they can't keep from talking about it.

My BIL is a Dr. He's a pretty good guy but I swear people act like he's bringing people back from the dead every day. We were working on something one time and my mom chimed in "Be careful of Alex's hands, we don't want him getting hurt." I looked at her and asked if she thought I made money with my good looks.

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You bitch about engineers, but the example of a prima donna you give is a doctor...?

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:07:40 AM EDT

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I'll be the bad guy:

40% of the FF/LEO's out there. They do it for the perks, status symbol, and power.

We finally get to the reason for the thread.

My thought as well...

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:08:45 AM EDT

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Liberal Presidents

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:09:47 AM EDT

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11b.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:10:08 AM EDT

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Doctor -- fat, stinky, unhealthy behaving, gross people with diseases.

Social Justice Worker -- phonies who claim virtue by supposedly helping other people but are generally just socialists pushing their agenda.

Teacher -- a bunch of entitled whiners who think their profession deserves to be a monopoly.

Fire Fighters -- basically OD/drunk and old-people government ambulance/first aid workers who also know how to point a hose at stuff. Should be a short term gig for strong young people, not a lifelong entitlement with absurd pension benefits.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:10:41 AM EDT

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Name a profession that is portrayed as noble and self-sacrificing, but is really not more special than any other job.

I'll start: nurse.

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DOCTOR ALL DAMN DAY

you can demand full compensation for complete failure, you only talk to your customer for 3-5 min and they think you're God, and you can treat people like cattle and they have no recourse

I know there are some doctors that don't do this most of them are concierge/private practice and they probably aren't taking new patients. Good luck finding a good doc at a big box hospital...rare breed.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:11:45 AM EDT

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Priests and ministers.

At best they're taking money and selling an afterlife fairy tale. You're literally paying for nothing. At worst they're ass raping little boys while the church hierarchy covers it up.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:12:03 AM EDT

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40% of the FF/LEO's out there. They do it for the perks, status symbol, and power.

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FF have power

Someone needs to tell that to the LEOs that keep arresting us for blocking traffic to keep cars from running over people laying in the streets at accident scenes. Oh and we have never arrested anyone or threaten to. No in the dept. I work with in Fla. Where do you get this power thing from. We have none.

Hell yeah the perks that's with any job

symbol did you not ever play fire fighter as a little boy, this one I'm a little confused on. Are you pissed because a firefighter stole your girlfriend because you still live in that basement at moms home. Get a life. FF fight fire and are Paramedics and have died trying to save peoples lifes that's a bad symbol to you.

40%.......I would say maybe 10% do it for what you say in the beginning. Until they realize it's more than that after they start seeing the dead bodies from accidents and patients. You then see a change in their attitudes. It affects all of these men and wmen after awhile. It stops being a game and becomes very serious when you get toned out.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:12:17 AM EDT

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Engineers

They're right up there with crossfit people and vegans. It's like they can't keep from talking about it.

My BIL is a Dr. He's a pretty good guy but I swear people act like he's bringing people back from the dead every day. We were working on something one time and my mom chimed in "Be careful of Alex's hands, we don't want him getting hurt." I looked at her and asked if she thought I made money with my good looks.

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I've never been impressed by any regular old doctor. Surgeons however are worthy of admiration IMO. The skill set required to cut somebody wide open, move things around in there and then sew them back up without killing them is remarkable when you think about it.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:13:38 AM EDT

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Meh

Try harder

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:14:24 AM EDT

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I think university professors (you know, the tenured guys at real research universities) are very noble, and incredibly humble ... and also very attractive.

Like beautiful graceful gods, really.

Nothing over-rated about those magnificent human beings at all.

Posted: 6/7/2017 10:16:21 AM EDT

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You are correct. I work with quite a few that are just here for the pension and insurance and don't give a rats ass about the job. Not that I wouldn't leave if those things were taken away but I enjoy what I do most days.