BAD CAREER CHOICES

An up-to-date list


Judges


Don't aspire to become a judge.
You might not be able to rectify injustice
or you might get afraid of a powerful person
and endanger your
integrity.


The Book of Ecclesiasticus
also known as 'The Book of Sirach' 7:6


Medical Doctors


He who is no good to himself,
to whom will he be good?


The Book of Sirach 14:5


Political Leaders

Their disease is that they neglect their own field
and go to weed the fields of others...


Inspired by Confucianism, Mencius 7.2.32.3


Religious Leaders


... you are not to be called 'rabbi':
for One
is your Teacher and Master
and all you are brothers.


The Bible, Matthew 23:8-10 i

The 'Rabbi'
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  1. Combined translations from NIV (New International Version), KJV (King James Version), RSV (Revised Standard Version) and Bible in Dutch, in NBG vertaling 1951.
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