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Are you engaged in the world's oldest profession?

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If you were asked, "are you engaged in the world's oldest profession?" what would your answer be? "No?" If you seriously think about it, though, what you are rejecting surely qualifies as a profession, if we agree that groups take on the title of profession by virtue of their professed expertise in a particular endeavour. I'm sure that this expertise that this profession claims requires much knowledge and skills, albeit a very specific set of esoteric knowledge and skills, to effectively achieve the objectives of that job. The division of work in societies If you have just a tiny bit of interest in history and the development of society (civilization?), you will remember that way back in the history of the world, our ancestors in order to survive the harshness of the environment in which they found themselves divided labour among the sexes. The males, by virtue of their perceived strength, their dexterity with a bow and arrow among the other virtue