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What Would Make A Job Prestigious?
Obviously your mind probably goes to the “big guns” of this discussion:
- Doctors
- Lawyers
- Executives
- Financial services
You might go to the “not big salary always but big impact” tier, such as:
- Teachers
- Priests/pastors
- Nurses
- Aid workers
- Cops
- Legal aid lawyers
You’d be theoretically right on all of these. Obviously what you deem “prestigious” and what society might deem “prestigious” are different, and unfortunately in the last few years, we've taken a lot of socially-relevant jobs and thrown them head-first into the Ideology Wars:
So now it’s possible that you think nurses aren’t a “prestigous” role, because you think they helped in faking COVID. The Culture Wars stuff can come for all of us. That’s been a hard reality of the last few years.
