Pride In Your Profession

From the Baltimore Sun.

And you thought fancy-pants doctors, lawyers and the like were the only ones who obsessed about their professional status.

Pimps care, too.

Consider the e-mail The Baltimore Sun's Justin Fenton received after describing a homicide victim as a "wannabe pimp" on the paper's crime blog. One of the dead man's associates objected to the term, but not in the way you might think.

"I want to know where you get off calling someone you don't even know a ‘wanna be,' " the e-mail began.

"You need to edit your post immediately and retract that phrase you used. Why would you use a false phrase like that to describe someone who was murdered. Shaun was a known and respected Pimp from D.C. He was serious about his job like I'm sure you are of yours. If he was a wanna be pimp then you are a wanna be journalist. I was appreciative of everything else in your article except for that negative phrase you used."

It's nice to know people from all walks of life take pride in their work.