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(Almost) All Professions Should be Honored, Not Just Teachers, Firemen, Soldiers, and Secretaries

Most of us work hard at what we do and many of us take satisfaction in doing our jobs.  But every day I see society honor only a select subset of professions with extreme reverence and it’s getting a bit annoying.  Apparently, some professions deserve holidays while others don’t even deserve a minute’s thought.  Of course, jobs whose practitioners put their life on the line deserve extra support and honor.  But for those professions whose practitioners don’t put their life at stake shouldn’t be put on more of a pedestal.  It’s not that they don’t deserve to be honored and respected, but so does everyone else that does a hard day’s work in a way that contributes to society.  They all do things that keep the gears of our society and economy turning.  They enable other people to get their jobs done, survive, be healthy, be entertained and to lead happy lives.

In the immortal words of Whitney Houston, “the children are our future;” parents and teachers are important in getting kids educated and started on the right path.  But what extra credit do the engineers who design the computers they use and the manufacturing workers who build the school buses get?  None.