Occupations
- Porter (carrier), person who carries objects
- Porter (college), member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Durham
- Porter (doorkeeper), one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry; doorkeeper or gatekeeper
- Porter (railroad), railroad employee who assists passengers
- Deal porter, dockworker specializing in handling baulks of softwood
- Doorman (profession)
- Groom Porter, official in charge of gambling in the Tudor court; the owner or operator of a gaming hall
- Kitchen Porter, a junior assistant position in the Brigade de cuisine of a commercial kitchen
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Famous quotes containing the word occupations:
“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“All occupations are lowly; only book-learning is exalted.”
—Chinese proverb.