PROFESSION

Annontatsion: A Profession is a disciplined group of individuals who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by the public as possessing special knowledge and skills in a widely recognised body of learning derived from research, education and training at a high level, and who are prepared to apply this knowledge and exercise these skills in the interest of others. [1] [2] A profession is also an occupation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. [3] Medieval and early modern tradition recognized only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law, [4][5] which were called the learned professions. [6] A profession is not a trade [7] and not an industry. [8