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Party balloon filler at your local supermarket. Nobody breathes more noble air than them. As for a serious answer, I consider the most noble professions to be those people who own companies and, rather than trying to chase short term profits, chase progress of some form.
That's an interesting answer. I like it. I Think that this is somewhat of a silly question. There are any number of professions, and they're only as noble as the people that join them. What I mean is that someone's motivation to be a teacher could be to have a job where they get the summers off, can get tenure and be protected while being mediocre at best. However, someone else could bypass a high earning Job in the private sector because they want/feel they have a calling to teach. The profession is the same, the motivation very different. Therefore, I don't think any particular profession is the "most" noble, but some of the people that occupy those professions may be quite noble, or quite disgusting all within the same industry. TLDR: It's the person, not the industry.
Artists. They exist in every profession and are invaluable.
I'm with thenewgreen on this, unless we have a specific definition of noble to work with. Is it somebody who helps others? Somebody who helps society (a superset of others)? Somebody who suffers gladly, and/or performs the work no one else wants to do? The first answer that comes to my mind is doctor, but are all doctors created equal? A plastic surgeon who does celebrity nose-jobs isn't the same as a plastic surgeon who helps burn victims.
What about disease research? Is the doctor who dedicates their life to trying to cure a disease that affects 1/10 000 000 more noble than someone who does the same for a disease that affects 1/100?
As a middle school math teacher, I thank you. I guide the hormonally-impaired through a good part of the most socially awkward time of their lives. Their parents don't know who they are much of the time and the kids aren't capable of knowing what my colleagues and I have done for them until years later. A little respect helps a ton.
Yes, but I respect you and not blindly your profession. You should know as well as ANYONE that not all teachers are made equally. I stand by my assertion that there is no "most noble profession" but rather a most noble "professional"
Then I'm the world's noblest tumbling tumbleweed?It's the person. Not the industry.
This is not the best response I can give but I'm running chores this morning so I just wanted to pop in and offer up two thoughts, neither mine: 1. 2. noblesse oblige Just $.02 to toss around.That is the question—
Let us take this out of the context of Hamlet considering suicide and just wonder - is it nobler to suffer what fate will hand you in your profession or is to nobler choose a profession where you can confront and slay the problems it presents? Is it nobler to simply manage to finish the job every day because it sucks (garbagemen; those people who had to squeeze used tampons for lab studies) or because you are enacting real and needed change? Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them?
Is nobility and the aspiration to be noble inherently a result of privilege? Not to denigrate those that pursue nobility as a core or guiding value, but at the same time, having the ability to choose a profession because you feel it is noble is certainly a privilege. Then again, being full of a driving motivation that causes you to pursue one goal/career above all others - that can describe an individual in any societal bracket or class. And it would not be unfair to describe that person as noble, when/if they fulfill their calling. the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.