Comments on: Unrespected Careers: Real Estate Brokers, Bankers, Accountants, etc.

By: AllFinancialMatters » Blog Archive » JLP’s Weekly Roundup (Week of August 13, 2007)

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:34:18 +0000

[...] found a list of unrespected careers. – I’m kind of surprised to see banker on the list. I never considered a banker to be [...]

By: Neely O'Hara

Neely O'Hara — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:39:42 +0000

This is a ridiculous list that revealse *something* about how Americans are responding in an unemotional and uninformed way.

Business executive? What in tarnation does that mean? And why should a “business executive” not be respected? The answer, of course, is because uninformed and over-emotional respondents think, “Enron!! Shriek!! All business executives are unethical!! Shriek!!”

Sounds like people with a high-school education answered this survey…

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Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:13:13 +0000

[...] to Consumerism Commentary, realtors, actors, and bankers lead the list of jobs that get no respect. Fourth on the list: your [...]

By: dong

dong — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:53:18 +0000

I think it’s mix of jealousy, disdain, and pity. I don’t think most people are envious of accountant, more likely pitied.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:06:13 +0000

I’d have to say that 25 is not enough categories to get a good spread. I’d also agree with Shawna and Cindy about car salespeople. Additionally, I have to say about all these (including car sales) that while at some point it might have been out of jealousy to their financial position – now I think it is more inherited. We have been trained to think of certain professions as employing people who are “out to get us.”

By: cindy

cindy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:33:19 +0000

I am surprised that used car salesmen is not on here. I think a lot of it is also the media coverage and mainstream films where they tend to use these professions as someone who is greedy and evil.

By: shawna

shawna — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:09:03 +0000

Interesting. I’d put “car salesmen” at the top of a list like that.

I agree with Toby, it looks like this is mostly a jealousy list.

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:31:38 +0000

I can see the negative view of Real-Estate Agents/Brokers. Afterall, a lot of noobs got into the business over the last decade to “cash in” and they:

A) Didn’t know what they were doing.
B) Didn’t have good customer service skills.
C) Were in it for the money.

I could go on. A lot of them ended up hurting more than helping and gave a bad name to real “in-it-before-1995″ Agents/Brokers. But that’s why I interviewed several agents before deciding who to go with. I’m happy to say that my experience with my RE agent was wonderful!

As far as some of the other professions on the list, it is absolutely jealousy.