<p>Its basically the way you treat others and your motivations for doing what you do. If I love being a stockbroker but I do it to help others by creating better jobs at the companies I buy, or I donate my earnings, or something else It really makes a difference whether they are doing it for money or for helping. It really is the person not the job. I mean a rich CEO could work in the homeless shelter on his/her dayoff. It is the person and not the job that matters.</p>
<p>Professional athletes also make tons of money from endorsements</p>
<p>Personally I think architect is a really prestigious career.</p>
<p>Professors and high school teachers who live in AK!!! Measly pay topped with all that snow and darkness command the utmost respect....but I guess that's not so "prestigious".. just respectable</p>
<p>It seems to suggest the idea of people who are "above" other people. Management positions...or a position with a unique power... or just people in the Advanced Study Institute at Princeton..</p>
<p>and I second the architect</p>
<p>I'm just curious - why do you guys think architects are really prestigious positions?</p>
<p>They build physical things of large scale on earth for everyone to see....everyone on earth besides cavemen owe the architects lol</p>
<p>What about Plumbers, Electricians, Garbadge men. I find the men and women who are a Neccesity, to make out lives possible to be much more prestige than lawyers and other professions.</p>
<p>Doctors and engineers come after.</p>
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Tiger woods and Maria sherapova are outside the typical 'sports stars'. The reason: their uniqueness to the game. Indeed, who ever expected a young african american to become such a star in golf?
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<p>excuse me. tiger woods is NOT black. </p>
<p>he is a mixed race person above all else. however, if you must assign a label to him then you would have to call him Asian. Why?</p>
<p>hes a quarter Chinese
hes a quarter Thai
hes a quarter African American
hes a quarter Native American</p>
<p>50% Asian, and 25% Black ancestry. hm... you make the call, do you still think he is black?</p>
<p>again, personally i would call him a mixed race person.</p>
<p>A lot of athletes are overpaid. Tennis players certainly are not. Andre Agassi got on that list after playing for 20-something years and winning 8 Grand Slams along with 60 titles and Olympic Gold. He's played over a thousand matches in his career. I think he deserves 30 million dollars for that career. And especially because most of that money goes to his charity (he's the most charitable athlete of all time).</p>