Professions with the biggest egos that you have observed ?

[Bongolation]

Some of you people don't understand the question.

Being irritated by the stupid/incompetent/lazy/ignorant has nothing to do with your ego...especially when they're increasing your work/stress load.

Being serious about what you do in a world full of people who aren't serious about anything isn't egotistical.

 

[fenderhutz]

College professors, they really can ruin you. Their reality of how the world works is often skewed.

Type A's in middle management.

 

[Jim Nazium]

Investment bankers and traders, by a huge margin. I have yet to meet one who didn't think he was smartest person and the biggest chick magnet in the world.

I suspect politicians may be similar, but that's only based on seeing them on the news . I've never actually worked with any.

 

[Marlat]

Forum moderators?

 

[Ziltoid]

Or at least engineering students.

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IT guys, especially admins.
-Mike

And this

Both +1000

 

[Stumbo]

IME, many, many small business owners who make good money.

Legends in their own minds.

 

[Big_Daddy]

Waffles. Ego. Leggo my ego..Geddit? Hah!

Impersonators. My father backed up this one guy once who impersonated Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and George Jones. He started commanding the band, telling them to do it his way, they weren't doing it right, they're not good enough, et cetera. My dad just said "just shut the **** up and sing. We're going to do it our way because our way is better. You're an impersonator, you don't have any real talent." As my father said, he had to walk sideways into a room because his head was so big.

Years later, I was with my girlfriend at the Legion and he was doing a show. Well there he was, on stage...With his wife manning the laptop as he sang to midi files. My girlfriend's mom had inadvertently pissed them off at the end of their set, too. It was beautiful.

High end retail workers, perhaps?

 

[icks]

I'll say Lawyers and Notaries.

I've worked in a bank and these two had to be treated like kings because of the volume of money they make. Now I work for the state and I deal everyday with notaries I can believe how stupid some of them are!! Now I don't have to kiss their a**** anymore, they kiss mine !

 

[JimB52]

I work with ex-NFL players who are now on-air "personalities". Think Joe Theismann, Marshall Faulk, Dieon Sanders. Hard to top in the ego dept.

 

[PSPookie]

Forum moderators?

Why not go for the gold and say "Forum Admins"?

If you're going to slap Chuck Norris, you may as well go whole-hog

IME, the worst offenders are typically those with "important" jobs who don't understand their roles very well.

Also, I played in a band with a stock-broker guitarist. The rest of us could barely fit in the same room as his ego.

 

[DwaynieAD]

+1 engineers, especially civil engineers.

i cant tell you how many times i've been standing in the rain with an engineer telling me there is no way the water is going to run left while i'm watching it run left

 

[dblthumbballad]

Starbucks barista...

 

[pie_man_25]

people in metal bands, of course I'm not too experienced in the world of egos, but I've always found that those in metal bands tend to have an "I'm better than you because I can shred" vibe.

 

[Quickie]

Steve Perry from Journey. Met him once....never want to meet him again. Opps...PROFESSIONS....ok.....Baseball. But Perry is still a jerk.

 

[L-A]

Marketing directors and loner "successful" business owners.

 

[madmatt]

Computer technicians.

I'm always taken by the "I can't believe how stupid you are because you don't know what I know" attitude they exude.

MOVE!!!

Actually most entertainers fall into this.

 

[Munjibunga]

That's what she said.

You're thinking of a different preposition.

 

[bassist11]

Pilots. I don't work with them, but almost everyone I know is big-headed.

+1000

 

[Popbumper]

I have to laugh, because those mentioned here are probably more obvious than others. As a manufacturing engineer, I have had the >somber< opportunity to work with Materials managers/buyers. Good God, you'd think these people crapped gold bars for a living. I have never met a more smug "lower tier" group in my life.

Chris

 

[Papa Dangerous]

Michael Angelo Batio....