Ocuppations and professions

Content

• What are the trades?
• What are professions?
• Examples of trades
• Examples of professions

We know that all work in society has the purpose of producing goods or offering services, in order to satisfy the requirements of the organized social group. But not everyone does it in the same way. There are different ways of working in society, each one with different remuneration and with different levels of formal and qualification requirements for its specific labor market.

Among them are trades and professions, the fundamental difference of which lies in the degree of instruction necessary to be able to perform the job satisfactorily. Both are necessary in every society and deserve fair remuneration and social value.

What are the trades?

There is talk of trades to refer to those work activities that are transmitted from one person to another through training and direct experience, often inherited from generation to generation of the family, or taught in technical schools that also offer services or products to the community.

The trades They are usually manual, artisanal or practical activities that do not require prior academic or formal preparation, but rather depend on the expertise, skill or strength of the person who carries them out.

What are professions?

On the contrary, it speaks of Professions to refer to occupations that require specialized knowledge imparted through formal academic preparation, such as those offered at universities, professional academies, and university institutes.

The people in charge of this type of work, who require high-level training and therefore high ethical standards, control over the content of the work and ranks of their own organization, are known as professionals and they make up an important sector of society whose training consumes resources but generates specialized technological, academic or humanistic income.

The professional sectors are divided into:

• University professionals. Those who attend college for four or more years and earn a bachelor's degree.
• Medium technicians. Those who attend a Technical University Institute and obtain a technical degree.

Examples of trades

Examples of professions