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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“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
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