<p>What are the most elitist industries and the most non elitist industries? thanks</p>
<p>you should focus your question question just by asking what are the elitist industries…how do you expect people to enumerate all the non elitist industries? :D</p>
<p>That’s a really broad question.</p>
<p>For very elitist industries, I’d say the obvious - doctors, financial consultants, maybe fashion design.</p>
<p>Non elitist? Well, how far down do you want to go? Fast food is pretty bad, obviously. As is collecting trash.</p>
<p>Retail jobs. 
Well that’s me for now. (non-elitist)</p>
<p>I would add lawyers to the laldm’s list of elitist industries.</p>
<p>Most elitist: Most people who try to get into Ivy League/come from Ivy League have elitist undertones, although they aren’t always bad. The healthcare and law industries are very elite.</p>
<p>Some of the people in those two fields do it for money, prestige and reputation.</p>
<p>Non-elitist: Education isn’t always elitist, but some professors seem to think they’re the sole source of knowledge. Computing is also quite open to new ideas.</p>
<p>Most sales jobs are open to all and pay as well as you can sell. That can be a lot.</p>
<p>Education in general (with the exception of superintendent) is a pretty non-elitist area. Not that I agree with it, because it really is a very crucial facet to the future, but teachers, profs., etc. arent exactly the most well respected (and paid!!) people on earth.</p>
<p>Law is not as elitist as you would think. There are all different types of lawyers. From pencil pushers who rarely go to court and make ~$60,000 a year to the bigwigs who negotiate $2.3 million settlements regularly.</p>
<p>While there are some elitist lawyers, the occupation is too broad to be given such a label.</p>
<p>But we all know what most of them are in the LM area eh HW? :P</p>
<p>lol…the microcosm of Philly’s main line…</p>
<p>indeed, indeed :)</p>
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<p>Well, let me add this wrinkle.</p>
<p>I agree that K-12 education is not particularly elitist.</p>
<p>But higher education academia is arguably the MOST elitist profession in the world. For example, look at the faculty of any elite engineering school, and you will notice that almost all of the tenured profs had themselves come from top engineering schools. The same thing can be said for almost any other academic field - science, humanities, etc. The tenure process is itself highly political and often times tends to be quite elitist.</p>
<p>I would also say that tenured profs have a pretty sweet lifestyle. After all, once you have tenure, you’re basically unfireable. You get LOADS of time off - you get the whole summer off, usually get about a month break during the winter holidays, get spring break off, you get a year-long paid sabbatical every 7 years or so. True, many profs use this time to conduct more research and write academic papers, but the point is, once you have tenure, you don’t have to do that. You can choose to do nothing, and you can’t be fired. </p>
<p>In fact, many tenured profs in certain disciplines, notably engineering, sciences, business, law, economics, etc. tend to use their time off to do side consulting or run side businesses. For example, take Amar Bose, who founded the Bose Corporation. According to Forbes Magazine, Amar Bose is worth $1.2 billion (the #645 richest person in the world) because of the success of the Bose Corporation. During all this time, he was also a tenured electrical engineering prof at MIT. </p>
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<p>The same could be said for Andrew Viterbi, who was an engineering professor at UCLA and UCSD and founded Qualcomm, the cell phone technology giant. According to Fortune Magazine, 2001 edition, he is one of the 400 richest Americans, worth about $640 million. Viterbi is still a UCSD prof. </p>
<p>How many other jobs out there will give you the time to start a billion-dollar company on the side?</p>
<p>it seems like IBanking is very elitist. Though there are certainly many exceptions, the majoity of people i know who want to go into iBanking come from wealthy families, are snobs, and care more about getting top grades in easy classes to try and get ahead in the financial life faster. As one of my iBanking inspiring frineds put it, “i dont care about college, I just want to **** money when I get out”</p>
<p>Investment Banking, teaching at elite universities, big time law, big time POLITICS, strategic consulting.</p>
<p>Music industry</p>
<p>Medicine is NOT elitist, except for perhaps academic medicine, and even then I would place a lot of other professions ahead of it.</p>
<p>When I think of elitist, I’m defining it as a field in which the prestige of the institutions you attended matters alot in where you will end up (top jobs), how much you will make, and where you will go (promotions, recognition in the field).</p>
<p>Part of the reason medicine is not elitist is that there are only 125 schools in the US, and they are all teaching to the exact same test (USMLE), and any variation in board scores from school to school is usually due to variation in average MCAT. The other part is that patients 99% of the time do not care where their physician is from, only that their doctor makes them feel better, listens to them, is likable and takes the time to answer their questions. Most patients never, ever ask where their physician went to school - I once asked a doc at my university health center where he went for school (Creighton -> Hopkins -> WashU) and he told me I was the first patient who had ever asked him that. He obviously went to several very prestigious institutions w/in the world of medicine.</p>
<p>Academia - at least at the upper tier schools - it is important where you received your PhD from, and even who your advisor was. Law, absolutely - the pre-law kids make a huge deal about the USNWR tiers. I’ve heard library science is pretty big on prestige (j/k).</p>
<p>teachers (not professors) = non-elitist</p>
<p>Wealthy families = more access to fanacy resume padding internships = Ibanking jobs…which makes it elitist, because other than that you have to go to a top 10 school for recruitment purposes</p>
<p>nah. it’s wealthy families–>pushes their kids to become even wealthier–>their kids grow to have extreme motivation and ambition–> wouldn’t have problem with paying for anything that could give the kids even the slightest advantage–>JOB!</p>
<p>at least for my family, it’s like that.</p>
<p>nah. it’s wealthy families–>pushes their kids to become even wealthier–>their kids grow to have extreme motivation and ambition–> wouldn’t have problem with paying for anything that could give the kids even the slightest advantage–>JOB!</p>
<p>at least for my family, it’s like that.</p>
<p>My family isnt like that AT ALL. They just want me to be happy no matter what I do. Money isn’t a problem, because they can always help.</p>