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)

    “The intellect,—that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)