Professions
Certain professions can be categorized as "upper middle class," though any such measurement must be considered subjective because of people's differing perception of class. Most people in the upper-middle class strata are highly educated white collar professionals such as physicians, lawyers, economists, urban planners, university professors, architects, psychologists, scientists, engineers, optometrists, dentists, pharmacists, high-level civil servants and the intelligentsia. Other common professions include corporate executives and CEOs, as well as some moderately successful business owners. Generally, people in these professions have an advanced post-secondary education and a comfortable standard of living.
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Famous quotes containing the word professions:
“Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A person of twelve professions and thirteen failures.”
—Trans. by Johanna C. Prins.
Dutch expression.
“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)