dentists. nobody likes them.

Soldiers.

Aid / relief workers (especially those in war zones, epidemic areas)

Hospice workers

Social workers

Teachers

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers - I am not one.

Teachers are among those who receive the lowest SAT scores.

Question was about noble professions, not about standardized test taking.

Social workers. Nobody gets into that for the money.

I like the answer about hospice workers...I never thought about them as a noble profession but they indeed are. My words to describe them are angels who walk the earth. To help a family though the death of a loved one and ease someone's pain as they die is amazing.

Not true about the low SAT scores for teachers.
Also- SAT scores do not make a good/bad teacher-- so your point is moot.

I am an HYP grad and a teacher. Some of the best teachers I know may not have scored a 2400 on the SAT, but they know how to control a class, make an abused child feel good about himself, and bring mundane topics like multiplication to life. I've been a public school elementary teacher and a litigator in a big DC law firm, and the two jobs are equally challenging.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers - I am not one.

Teachers are among those who receive the lowest SAT scores.

Well, if that is your metric I think the question you should ask is, what about GOOD teachers? Because a good teacher impacts the lives of the majority of students they teach. I got a 1590 (out of 1600) on my SAT, and I am a math teacher. I love my students, thrive on seeing them thrive, dedicate myself every day to making subjects like Calculus interesting and understandable to all of the students in my classroom. But further, the fact that I am a good teacher has little to nothing to do with my SAT score. In fact, some of the most brilliant people I've known have been terrible teachers. So please, let's leave the SAT scores out of this discussion, because it is so very irrelevant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers - I am not one.

Teachers are among those who receive the lowest SAT scores.

Was the question which occupation receives the highest sat scores?

Anonymous wrote:Teachers - I am not one.

Teachers are among those who receive the lowest SAT scores.

Inventor/capitalist

Inventing things that improve life. For example the inventor of PVC piping probably did more to increase clean water around the world and decrease disease than a thousand nurses.

Teachers, nurses, environmentalists, police officers and soldiers.

Wedding Planner

If you think police do more harm than good, let's let all the police officers in DC off for a week and see what ensues.