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.
Germany: cite, German language 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.
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.
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.
Probably the image of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Are you saying they are like that or that’s how they are perceived?
I suspect the stereotype of AK84’s comment (from Post #14) has been around longer than Cuckoo’s Nest, and was perhaps an established stereotype by the time Kesey used it.
Ah, gotcha, thanks 
We call 'em “meter maids” here.
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.
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.
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.
Excuse me, but what are “estate agents”? Is this someone who collects rent?
Estate agents = Realtors.
Generally seen as shiny-suited, smarmy hucksters, and lazily incompetent to boot.
Argentina: Politicians, Politicians, Lawyers, Members of the Armed Forces (for obvious reasons), Cops (seen as corrupt).