Profession vs. Employment

A profession is an occupation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. Medieval and early modern tradition recognized only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law, which were called the learned professions.

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee. Employees work in return for payment, which may be in the form of an hourly wage, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does or which sector they are working in.

An occupation or career

The act of employing.

An occupation, such as law, medicine, or engineering, that requires considerable training and specialized study.

The state of being employed.

The body of qualified persons in an occupation or field

The work in which one is engaged; occupation.

An act or instance of professing; a declaration.

An activity to which one devotes time.

An avowal of faith or belief.

The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

A faith or belief

The act of employing

Declaration of faith.

A use, purpose

(religion) A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.

The state of being employed

The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.

An activity to which one devotes time

Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Professional occupation.

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.

(collective) The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

the state of being employed or having a job;

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

the occupation for which you are paid;

That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.

the act of giving someone a job

That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.

the act of using;

The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.

The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.

the body of people in a learned occupation;

an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion;

affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith;