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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Pocket STocker on June 19, 2014, 10:25:40 PM
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The people and professions we trust the most from Reader Digest for 2014 :clap
I think we have some members that find themselves on this list :-++
MOST TRUSTED PROFESSIONS
Throughout the past year paramedic organisations in various parts of Australia have reported their members increasingly coming under attack by the very people they are trying to help. But for our respondents there is no question: they are the most trusted of all the professionals – just ahead of those other ever-reliables, firefighters. “They do a superb job under a great deal of pressure,” said one person, while many others put it even more simply: “your life is in their hands”.
1. Paramedics
2. Firefighters
3. Rescue volunteers
4. Nurses
5. Doctors
5. Pilots
7. Pharmacists
8. Air traffic controllers
8. Farmers
8. Veterinarians
11. Police
12. Armed forces personnel
12. Scientists
14. Teachers
14. Dentists
16. Childcare workers
17. Bus/train/tram drivers
18. Flight attendants
19. Locksmiths
20. Hairdressers
21. Postal workers
22. Computer technicians
22. Waiters
22. Plumbers
25. Accountants
25. Cleaners
27. Security guards
27. Builders
27. Mechanics
30. Shop assistants
30. Truck drivers
32. Professional sportspeople
33. Alternative health practitioners
34. Bankers
35. Financial planners
36. Tow-truck drivers
36. Charity collectors
36. Lawyers
36. Clergy (all religions)
40. Airport baggage handlers
41. Taxi drivers
42. Journalists
43. CEOs
43. Radio talkback hosts
45. Real estate agents
45. Call centre staff
47. Sex workers
47. Insurance salespeople
49. Politicians
50. Door-to-door salespeople
- See more at: http://www.readersdigest.com.au/trusted-people-2014#sthash.RAVlfW34.dpuf (http://www.readersdigest.com.au/trusted-people-2014#sthash.RAVlfW34.dpuf)
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17 :hatwave
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:dred11 :dred11 :dred11
17 here also ;-* :thumb
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17 :hatwave
Me too :thumbsup
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I'm glad I'm not a door to door salesman. :beer
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12 :beer
But then, you have to trust folk who have access to big guns.. o:) o:)
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27 :eek
I'd better keep an eye on these people (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiBehQgDEBzi3Wg0-s_J7GAk_3Iu9Pg3Cv9Q0gkeOCCLRYwrLf8A)
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ST2UP 1
Pocket Stocker 4
Pockey are you sure you didn't make this up yourself :well
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Been a few of those. Going backwards in the ratings! Time to retire.
Where are retirees on that scale? The top is taken, so I guess I've got further to slip... :'(
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ST2UP 1
Pocket Stocker 4
Pockey are you sure you didn't make this up yourself :well
To be fair... the people rating 1 and 4 are probably in no fit condition to be rating anything
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I thought 47 and 49 were the same, we get screwed at every opportunity. :eek
Sorry :fp
:wht11
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I was also 2 until I finished that up last month after 5 years.
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I was also 2 until I finished that up last month after 5 years.
Dont worry Sicman, you will always be a number poo two in my eyes :rofl
Pockey :Blow
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I can live with 17 :clap . Just happy to be on the list but I am sure number 14 will lord it over me when she gets home.
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Well I fall into #3 as far as SES goes but my day job doesn't even appear in the list.
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Well I fall into #4 as far as SES goes but my day job doesn't even appear in the list.
#4.....I think you have sold yourself short Craig...... :nahnah unless you mean Pre-SES when known as Civil Defense and had a Nursing core attached to there brigades.... :p
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Dunno what you're talking about ........ Hehehehe ;-*