What is a "professional"

Maurice Yeltsin · 26-03-2019 07:06PM #1

You do see this advertised on plenty of rent adverts. Professional couple, professionals house, so on.

What, exactly, is a professional in the scheme of these ads? It presumably aims to dissuade students, the unemployed, part time workers etc but what does it really mean.

Does it exclude warehouse workers?
Tradesmen?
Lorry drivers?

Something about professional hints slacks and black leather shoes, yet plenty of people with this attire are on appallingly bad money. Why not just say working people wanted?

Is it a oblique way of saying we want people who regard themselves as middle to upper class, preferably with some sort of 3rd level qualification?

thomil · 26-03-2019 07:09PM

For me, it's anyone who has been able to move past an entry level job and has left the most extreme part of their partying days behind them, so people who are somewhat stable in their income and employment situation. I haven't seen the term used in a way to exclude tradesmen as such.

NIMAN · 26-03-2019 07:10PM

I think it basically means someone who is employed.

Another way of saying I don't want some dole scrounger renting my house, cos they'll likely wreck it.

OldMrBrennan83 · 26-03-2019 07:11PM

Ads like that mean someone who wears a suit to work.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-03-2019 07:13PM

It's intended to limit it to Doctors, solicitors, etc and is a snobbish term.

Anybody who is employed and thus receives payment for their labour is a professional, but it's not just anybody these people want.

Maurice Yeltsin · 26-03-2019 07:16PM

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Ads like that mean someone who wears a suit to work.

There's a lot of people wearing shoes and a shirt to work who earn 23k. It's always strange how the CSO reports finance to be the top earning sector. By gross mean maybe, the median money would be very average for the bulk of staff.

Unless he never shows up half the time there's nobody in Dublin wearing work boots earning less than 36k per year (at a minimum), bar apprentices. With most qualified trades reasonably above that.

Your Face · 26-03-2019 07:17PM

Hulk Hogan and the lads.

Maurice Yeltsin · 26-03-2019 07:18PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Another way of saying I don't want some dole scrounger renting my house, cos they'll likely wreck it.

House sharing with the perennially unemployed is a second job in itself. Never again. I'd go to prison sooner than live with some stoned leftie on rent supplement again.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-03-2019 07:22PM

In the context of rentals, I just take it to mean ‘somebody who is working and is mature’.

biko · 26-03-2019 07:24PM

Professional couple = really good at being a couple, maybe even experts

Force Carrier · 26-03-2019 07:25PM

Katie Taylor is a professional. She used to be an amateur.

Credit Checker Moose · 26-03-2019 07:28PM

I has a profession, that makes me a professional.

Roger Hassenforder · 26-03-2019 07:43PM

Is it not just people who are working and wont be claiming rent allowance.
And no students.

kneemos · 26-03-2019 07:46PM

People who get paid by the month.

lainey_d_123 · 26-03-2019 07:53PM

Maurice Yeltsin wrote: »

House sharing with the perennially unemployed is a second job in itself. Never again. I'd go to prison sooner than live with some stoned leftie on rent supplement again.

Sounds like you lived with one of my ex-housemates. Lazy hypocritical w@nker. Full of talk of how much he hated 'the man' and didn't want to work for 'the man' but not a problem living off dole money funded by other people's hard work, using public services and helping himself to food purchased by myself and the other working housemates. I don't think there's any more odious type of person than an educated person from a middle class background who has chosen to be unemployed and live a scrounging lifestyle.

padd b1975 · 26-03-2019 07:53PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

In the context of rentals, I just take it to mean ‘somebody who is working and is mature’.

I always thought it meant someone who wasn't a student.

padd b1975 · 26-03-2019 07:55PM

biko wrote: »

Professional couple = really good at being a couple, maybe even experts

I'm still not renting out a room to them!

Beechwoodspark · 26-03-2019 07:56PM

I’ve a friend a chartered accountant.

Divorced the wife. Cheating the whole time so no surprise. Drinks every night to excess. Sacked many times. Doubt he earns much.

But he’s seemingly a professional.

The Tetrarch · 26-03-2019 08:00PM

An organised occupation where you profess to follow the rules of the organisation.

xzanti · 26-03-2019 08:02PM

Someone who has their sh1t together.

JohnnyFlash · 26-03-2019 08:04PM

Slightly archaic term, but would be used in rental ads to indicate the landlord is looking for teachers, accountants, nurses, software developers etc. People who hopefully will pay the rent on time and not destroy the place.

Jimbob1977 · 26-03-2019 08:07PM

Traditionally:

White collar, office job, with no manual labour.... doesn't get hands dirty

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-03-2019 08:07PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

I always thought it meant someone who wasn't a student.

Yeah, that too.

Avatar MIA · 26-03-2019 08:08PM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

An organised occupation where you profess to follow the rules of the organisation.

We have a winner

Avatar MIA · 26-03-2019 08:10PM

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I’ve a friend a chartered accountant.

Divorced the wife. Drinks every night to excess. Sacked many times. Doubt he earns much. But he’s seemingly a professional.

While employed and a member of CAI, yes, your FRIEND is a professional.

Force Carrier · 26-03-2019 08:13PM

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I’ve a friend a chartered accountant.

Divorced the wife. Drinks every night to excess. Sacked many times. Doubt he earns much. But he’s seemingly a professional.

I wouldn't like to be your enemy.

Roger Hassenforder · 26-03-2019 08:16PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Slightly archaic term, but would be used in rental ads to indicate the landlord is looking for teachers, accountants, nurses, software developers etc. People who hopefully will pay the rent on time and not destroy the place.

That must be the first post of yours where you havent regaled us with a tale of you wearing the sod off some wan after a feed of Mojitos

#slipping

s4uv3 · 26-03-2019 08:23PM

It's a bit nonsensical to advertise a rental property and look for "professionals".
I looked at a property a few years back. It was recently extensively done up, because the previous family had proper trashed the place. Holes in doors, paintwork destroyed, kitchen in rag order etc.
They were a 'professional' family though....2 doctors and their kids. :rolleyes:

somesoldiers · 26-03-2019 08:26PM

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Ads like that mean someone who wears a suit to work.

Damn, I’m a Vice President in an IFSC based financial company, but we are casual these days and I usual just wear jeans, T-shirt and runners- guess I needn’t apply

Purple Mountain · 26-03-2019 08:29PM

Professional job seeker.

upinsmoke · 26-03-2019 08:30PM

Anyone in a dirty job, part time job, on minimum wage, not working standard hours can feck off.

What is a "professional"

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