Profession - Provincial Color

Provincial Color

The ranking of established professions in the United States based on the above milestones shows surveying first (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were all land surveyors before entering politics), followed by medicine, actuarial science, law, dentistry, civil engineering, logistics, architecture and accounting.

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Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or color:

    “The dead level of provincial existence.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “To face the garment of rebellion
    With some fine color that may please the eye
    Of fickle changelings and poor discontents.
    Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
    Of hurly-burly innovation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)