In many ways, professions define and sustain themselves with a collective agreement to be bound by regulations.
It has the smallest service sector by employment share of any big rich economy, thanks to archaic rules in retailing and many professions, that block the creation of new industries and jobs.
The net result: For the first time in many years, public professions by Vice President Joe Biden to the contrary notwithstanding, there is perceptible daylight between the United States and Israel.
We have so much to thank previous generations of women, now many in senior positions across professions, on whose shoulders we stand.
FORBES: 5 Steps to Eliminate Culture Bias and Succeed in Your Career
The issue of lost women workers remains a delicate one for many companies, particularly in highly skilled professions, such as consulting or banking.
Previous research has found that many higher-educated workers in professions such as software engineering and consulting choose to work up to 120 hours a week, whether or not they have to.
Faced with a bleak jobs picture in their chosen profession, many workers will re-invent themselves in order to enter existing and new professions.
Journalism is just one of the many collapsing professions out there, so to expand the point, why are there so many people in an array of industries enjoying wild successes (witness the crop of new Facebillionaires) in cool jobs while others founder?
As the Nordic countries' population ages, there will be many more openings for foreigners in medicine, the caring professions and other jobs, especially in the public sector.
ECONOMIST: Is a large flow of migrants a good or a bad thing?
This tendency is now so strong that many people in the creative industries see open innovation as a primary threat to their professions and are looking for a new, more protective culture around open innovation.
Many of them are environmental twists on old professions, like law, or in Makower's case, journalism.
应用推荐