His occupation is gambler.

What does he do for a living?

We both have our professions

Strictly speaking, his life was his occupation.

Ah, Swiss. His profession?

I mean, a poet's life is his work.

Opinion was greatly divided about his occupation.

A lawyer has a duty to his profession...

He learned his trade from Mencken and Ingersoll,

Yes, Stockholm, for peace...

Curious, Gardner asked the man about his career.

And by profession, he's a psychophysicist.

And his work is his life, in a special sense.

If his occupation didn't, his manner would.

I am a shepherd. It's a symbol of his identity, his career, his job.

Even for him, the career took thirty years.

Feliciano, well, we don't mention his profession in polite society.

You tell him for me he's a disgrace to his profession.

He's the first man in Spain, the greatest in his profession.

June Cohen Our next speaker has spent his whole career eliciting that sense of wonder.

That's what I meant when I said his life was his work.

He even changed his name.

That's his profession really as much as painting helping people.

In his early period, he produced up to nine movies a year.

Economist by profession, graduated cum laude from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.

His vocation and avocation are one and the same. The pursuit of beautiful women.

Only in the hour of trial, sir, that a man finds his true profession.

Sami threw away his lucrative career as a doctor to work as a taxi driver.

If Jesus Christ were to come to us today we would spend a long time questioning his profession. Merely a carpenter from the Middle East!

Prior to starting his career as a writer, he worked as a technologist at a textile factory in Kalinin.

Fontaine began his amateur career at USM Casablanca, where he played from 1950 to 1953.

And you know, it's just one of the great things about being a musician, is that it is so unbelievably fluid.

Sami was technically a good doctor, but his alcohol abuse prevented him from practising.

Like other colleagues we would also extend our best wishes to Ambassador Volker Heinsberg for his future career and for his future life.

He's a young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on any criminal in London.

I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I agree with you that he is at the head of his profession.

Cantona has continued his interest in beach football games in southern Asia and at the Inaugural Kronenbourg Beach Soccer in 2002, in the city of Brighton.

Within a few years he moved to Los Angeles, abandoning, once and for all, his career as a musician, and established the Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.).

That is no more than one would expect from a doctor who is true to the ethics of the profession, my medical friends tell me.

Ms. MTSHALI (South Africa) South Africa would like to add its voice to the good wishes that have been given to Ambassador Heinsberg for his future career.

Since the witness considered the new decrees to be instructions to mutilate and, as such, to be contrary to his professional ethics, he fled and, consequently, he is now a deserter.

As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible standing in front of an audience is a cross between an out of body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments by relying on words on paper, and I only hope I'm not struck by lightning bolts before I'm done.

A militiaman from Kibungo explained to a priest who tried to persuade him not to take part in the massacres that he liked his job as a taxi (moto) driver and did not want to be a soldier.

At TEDxRotterdam, world champion whistler Geert Chatrou performs the whimsical Eleonora by A. Honhoff, and his own Fête de la Belle. In a fascinating interlude, he talks about what brought him to the craft.