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There are professions whose process of qualification is truly more vigorous than others and take longer.
To be a doctor or engineer costs six intense years or even more if the student happens to encounter any delays on the way. Throw in another year of rigorous internship when people who opted for sociology, anthropology, and teaching are already earning an income and you will start to understand just how much one has to sacrifice to earn those prestigious prefixes before their names.
The sad bit is that life as a social platform remains an equaliser that holds no regard even for the perks such professions might confer. Social interactions also owe no recognition to whatever title education might confer one. This is why a lowly placed housemaid might just marry the pilot who lives next door or an engineer might decide to take home that curvaceous lass with a killer smile that serves him at JAVA cafe frequently.
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