profession
Expert's chosen field
A profession is an occupation requiring specialized education and training—medicine, law, engineering, accounting.
The term carries connotations of expertise, ethical standards, and social status that distinguish professions from ordinary jobs.
She entered the legal profession after law school.
To make a profession of something is to declare it openly: a profession of faith, a profession of love.
The oldest profession is a euphemism for prostitution.
Paid position of employment
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- positionLocation or stance
- workplaceEmployment location
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
employee · employer · hire · interview · recruitment · vacancy · full-time · part-time
Dedicated career path
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- passionIntense emotional drive
- purposeReason something exists
- missionPurpose-driven task
service · commitment · devotion · fulfillment · destiny · meaning · idealism · sacrifice
Concentrated expertise in one field
- competenceAdequate ability to function
- proficiencySkilled performance level
- qualificationRequired skill or condition
- certificationAttestation of qualification
mastery · credentials · authority · practitioner · specialist · acumen · knowledge · training
Learning trade through employment
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
vocational · technical · hands-on · plumber · electrician · carpenter · mechanic · welder
Subject-specific vocabulary
- legaleseAttorneys' technical jargon
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- buzzwordTrendy jargon, often hollow
- medicaleseHealthcare terminology
Desire for achievement
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- ladderPortable climbing frame
- networkingBuilding professional relationships
mentorship · opportunity · corporate · executive · industry · sector · field · trajectory
job
Paid position of employment
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- positionLocation or stance
- workplaceEmployment location
salary · employee · employer · hire · interview · recruitment · vacancy · full-time · part-time · contract
vocation
Dedicated career path
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- passionIntense emotional drive
- purposeReason something exists
mission · service · commitment · devotion · fulfillment · destiny · meaning · idealism · sacrifice · contribution
specialization
Concentrated expertise in one field
- competenceAdequate ability to function
- proficiencySkilled performance level
- qualificationRequired skill or condition
certification · mastery · credentials · authority · practitioner · specialist · acumen · knowledge · training · licensure
apprenticeship
Learning trade through employment
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
craftsmanship · vocational · technical · hands-on · plumber · electrician · carpenter · mechanic · welder · mason
terminology
Subject-specific vocabulary
- legaleseAttorneys' technical jargon
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- buzzwordTrendy jargon, often hollow
medicalese · acronyms · cant · argot
ambition
Desire for achievement
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- ladderPortable climbing frame
networking · mentorship · opportunity · corporate · executive · industry · sector · field · trajectory · milestone
- biographybirth, death date, autobiography, life story, biography
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- work termsboss, job, manager, career, company
- vocationcalling, vocation, divine calling, priesthood, religious life
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- careersdoctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, nurse
professionunemployment
Being without paid work
unskilled labor · joblessness · casual labor · odd job · manual labor
professionhobby
Recreational leisure activity
avocation · pastime · leisure · recreation · entertainment
professiondenial
Refusal to accept reality
disavowal · renunciation · retraction · recantation · repudiation
- professional writingFormal workplace text production
- professional sportsPaid competitive athletic leagues
- professional organizationsGroups for career practitioners
- professional wrestlingScripted athletic performance art
- professional helpAssistance from qualified specialists
- professional associationsGroups organized by occupation
professional, professionalism, unprofessional, nonprofessional, professions, professionally, professing, unprofessionalism, professionalize