Re: Prestigious Careers
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Yeah a lot of you guys are confusing respectability with prestige. Just being in the military is not prestigious, being a general or an admiral is.
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Right. People are defining the word differently in this thread, which is probably another problem with that survey. You'll find a few definitions, but the one I most commonly associate with prestige is:
"a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc."
I think taking a "noble" profession, which may not be particularly hard to gain access to or acquire the skills to become qualified for, is not necessarily a "prestigous" one merely because of the perceived social benefit or physical risk. I probably associate the word more closely with "elite" than "respect".
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