The 3 most trusted professions and the 3 least trusted

Henetha, I sympathise with you about bad communication in hospital. We are all so vulnerable as patients. I hope you can put the experience behind you and I assure you , you are not the only one this has happened to.
BTW surgeons , not physicians, may be the more frequent culprits!

fancythat

If something is lighthearted, best to put it in the title. Or at least clearly in the opening post.
It saves misunderstandings.

Not telling anyone what to do.
Just advice.

Thanks for that fancythat Appreciate your comment. Sometimes I have a very different way of looking at things, possibly cultural and in future I will say if it is meant to be lighthearted. The actual thing I listened to was quite funny, at least that is how it turned out.

I have problems trusting anyone really. But I do feel fairly happy with the nice young chap who cleans the windows and cuts the grass etc. I think I can trust him.
Also the garage where I've been taking my car for many years. I've never had any reason to suspect that they are ripping me off.
I'm sad to say that I don't trust doctors and do feel let down by them. What on earth has happened to the good old family doctors who knew us inside out? And I much prefer the nurses at the surgery rather than the doctors.
Also, one hospital consultant in particular who treated me like I was something nasty on his shoe. I wish now that I had reported him at the time.
As for teachers, I simply don't have any dealings with them these days. Having worked for an estate agent once, I don't trust them at all. Politicians, absolutely not!

Another vote for not being judgmental or categorising people without knowing their work and worth.
My son began his career as a car salesman, moved to Food production and is now a Managing Director. He is very trustworthy. Another family member is an estate agent.

I trust my plumber who has been coming here for 12 years. I treat people with respect but with caution.

So glad I am not a teacher nowadays.

We have a very good estate agent, I am very happy using the company. My recommendations was based on broad experience. As we have renovated and extended ou current home we have dealt with tradesmen of all kinds and always found them good and trustworthy. The same for car mechanics and coach drivers.

I assume anyone listing professions would be doing it on personal expereince, not just old fashioned ideas of respecting our 'betters'

I don't need to be "warned" that something is lighthearted.
If it is or isn't, and I don't like it, I don't read further or contribute.

I think our trust in doctors has been betrayed. They are under the thumb of the drug companies, which encourage them to prescribe too many drugs. We are also constantly given advice on health, which then turns out to be incorrect.
Teachers are given instructions on what to teach. Many teachers have left the profession because of this modern ideology which is actually telling lies to children.

If something is lighthearted, best to put it in the title. Or at least clearly in the opening post.
It saves misunderstandings.

Not telling anyone what to do.
Just advice.

I don’t trust someone purely based on what they actually do for a living. It’s more how they do their job with interest in what they do no matter what their job is.
A person can have a highly ranking professional job but not be very good at it in reality. On the other hand a person could have the most dirty horrid job but take pride in doing it right.
Everyone is an individual I don’t like classification stereotyping or labelling people.

I didn't read the OP as light-hearted either - rather thought-provoking. It's terribly sad that trust has become so lacking. As others have said, I do tend to be a trusting person. BUT ...... I would never trust a politician and I have a strong mistrust of 'the meeja'. On the other hand I do trust BBC news. At a local level trust is my baseline in everyday dealings and lost trust is never regained.

Estate agents used to get bad press, as did used car salesmen.
As for bankers, well, rhyming slang categorises people as "merchant bankers" around here.

I do not trust consultants until they prove that I can.

Mainly I trust the ones that say "I'm not sure - I honestly don't know" and explain to me at some length the pros and cons and why and what they would do if I was their mother/sister/wife.

I am happy to travel 100s of miles if necessary to see a consultant who is humble enough to continue to question.

Iam64

I didn’t read the OP as lighthearted. No good posting then complaining you don’t like the responses nanna8

Sometimes it is hard to convey “mood” in words.
I too took this literally and found the results of the survey facile and judgemental rather than light hearted.

I used to trust the Royal family to be on the side of their subjects.

I'd treat all of those people respectfully, but I wouldn't necessarily accept what they say as right just because of their job.

I think those days are long gone, thankfully (or sadly, depending on your view on the subject)

My dentist is the only professional I have complete trust in.
I have had problems with bankers and solicitor.
I have lost confidence in GPs.

I didn’t read the OP as lighthearted. No good posting then complaining you don’t like the responses nanna8

It was a world wide survey of many thousands of people apparently. Not my conclusions, just what I heard reported. I would agree with the politicians though because they seem to find it very difficult to tell the truth. That goes for left,right and in betweens. Of course you can’t pigeonhole people, it was just a thing on radio. Just lighten up, will you ?

I'm not a trusting person - trust has to be earned, but I try not to generalise about any profession in general. There are good and bad in all walks of life.

I find these random generalisations puzzling and unfair.
The “meme” used to be about trusting someone as far as a used car salesman - but there must be exceptions.
The only people I tend not to trust (and I may be wrong) are people who appear at my door and offer to trim my trees/trim the beech hedge/ resurface my drive.
All three have needed doing but nothing would induce me to believe their arrival was fortuitous!

I am not a trusting person so I dont repose confidence in someone just because of their occupation. People dont "get" trust from me. They earn it over many years - or not as the case may be. I always go with my gut feeling. If I get a bad feeling about someone nothing will convince me that they are not a wrong un.

Bankers, politicos and estate agents are my least trueted and most despised.

I trust anyone until they treat me badly or wrongly
And that goes for my butcher dentist who I refuse to see but have no other NHS dentist to turn too so holding my breathe and hoping for the best 🙄

least trusted

I cannot think of any, never had a bad experience

my plumber, my chimney sweep and my dentist

I’d have thought lawyers might well be among the least trusted, though that’s probably because a solicitor neighbour of ours was struck off (and banged up) for fraud and money laundering. I don’t think it’s exactly unheard of.