What is another word for "profession"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "profession": accessory, adage, admitted, adviser, advocate, and, aphorism, aphoristic, apophthegm, apothegm, article, assistant, association, assumption, attorney, axiom, axiomatic, banco, bar, barrister, beagle, belief, believer, bencher, body, byword, call, canonist, catholic, civilian, collective, common, commonplace, community, conclusion, confession, consult, conveyancer, counsel, court.