That's really good support, because writing can be such a lonely profession.

It was the only way a man in his lonely and dangerous profession could live.

Writing is a lonely profession.

Teaching is a lonely and disrespected profession; society's continual dumping of responsibilities (disguised as curriculums) only worsens the situation.

He had become a novelist, which is about as alienated and lonely a profession as there is, and a full-time Presidential candidate.

Main role is to dig new water wells and empty cesspits (Dunnykin divers, a lonely profession)

"It's a very lonely profession," Mr. Bush says.

Several say that it is also a lonely profession.

It's the loneliest profession in the world.

Ours is a lonely profession.