# In other countries, which professions are considered evil? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896 "2014-06-28T22:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/21 "2014-06-29T09:59:04Z")
In some ways college professors here in the US. As a conservative many on my side feel they have a liberal bias and resort to brainwashing students. Others feel that when they publish a study its done with a bias and after reading many a questionnaire, I have to concur. Many questions certainly are misleading and one wonders how this “study” will then go to make public policy or laws. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/22 "2014-06-29T12:39:28Z")
Germany: [cite, German language](http://www.ifd-allensbach.de/uploads/tx_reportsndocs/PD_2013_05.pdf) on the question on which professions you have most respect: Least respected: bank employee, TV presenter, politician, bookseller, military officer Most respected: doctor, nurse, police officer, teacher, craftsman. The ‘bookseller’ rating BTW I cannot understand, they are pretty inoffensive people. Popular ire in my impression: I think traffic wardens are most hated. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/23 "2014-06-29T13:11:53Z")
What exactly is a traffic warden? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/24 "2014-06-29T13:28:59Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > What exactly is a traffic warden? The people (increasingly often women, because they generally attract less aggression) who issue parking tickets for overstaying parking or parking illegally. They have a reputation for mindless enforcement of the rules, and occasionally giving highly questionable tickets in order to meet quotas. Often seen as wanna be police who failed the intelligence tests. It’s an awful job. Of course everyone recognises that some people are parking badly and dangerously, but of course it’s never _them_. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/25 "2014-06-29T14:56:52Z")
Other than income tax clerks, I can’t think of anyone Israelis hate. Who are we to criticize someone’s job? After all, a person’s gotta make a living. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/26 "2014-06-29T16:16:00Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Why nurses? What’s their reputation? Probably the image of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/27 "2014-06-29T16:57:24Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Being scowling, unfriendly and forcing having the manner and symphaty of an executioner. Are you saying they _are_ like that or that’s how they are perceived? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/28 "2014-06-29T17:02:29Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Probably the image of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I suspect the stereotype of **AK84** ’s comment (from [Post #14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17503650&postcount=14)) has been around longer than Cuckoo’s Nest, and was perhaps an established stereotype by the time Kesey used it. > [@AK84](#): > > Being scowling, unfriendly and forcing having the manner and symphaty _[sic]_ of an executioner. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/29 "2014-06-29T17:31:11Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > The people (increasingly often women, because they generally attract less aggression) who issue parking tickets for overstaying parking or parking illegally. They have a reputation for mindless enforcement of the rules, and occasionally giving highly questionable tickets in order to meet quotas. Often seen as wanna be police who failed the intelligence tests. > > It’s an awful job. Of course everyone recognises that some people are parking badly and dangerously, but of course it’s never _them_. Ah, gotcha, thanks 🙂 We call 'em “meter maids” here. ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/30 "2014-06-29T18:01:17Z")
Italy: lawyers, notaries, politicians - all related with The Law and The Man. There’s also funeral home directors but that might be a bias in the family. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/31 "2014-06-29T21:00:51Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > In some ways college professors here in the US. As a conservative many on my side feel they have a liberal bias and resort to brainwashing students. Yes, that is one example where America does differ from other countries. Conservatives elsewhere are generally not nearly so committed to a pro-ignorance agenda. Incidentally, it is not just professors that American conservatives seem to hate, it is schoolteachers too. > [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Others feel that when they publish a study its done with a bias and after reading many a questionnaire, I have to concur. Many questions certainly are misleading and one wonders how this “study” will then go to make public policy or laws. This seems something of a non-sequitur. Certainly questionnaires and polls can be badly done, and sometimes, either deliberately or inadvertently, contain misleading and biased questions. However, only a very tiny proportion of academics are in any way concerned with questionnaire-based research, and much of the questionnaire-based polling that does go on is carried out by the government or by commercial companies, often paid for by interest groups and political groups from across the political spectrum. Polling and questionnaires are neither particularly associated with academia nor with the political left. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/32 "2014-06-30T13:08:48Z")
Excuse me, but what are “estate agents”? Is this someone who collects rent? ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/33 "2014-06-30T13:29:39Z")
Estate agents = Realtors. Generally seen as shiny-suited, smarmy hucksters, and lazily incompetent to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896/34 "2014-06-30T14:05:18Z")
Argentina: Politicians, Politicians, Lawyers, Members of the Armed Forces (for obvious reasons), Cops (seen as corrupt). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-countries-which-professions-are-considered-evil/691896.md?page=1)