help me! occupational ranking?

Question

I have 20 occupations listed in alphabetical order below. Next to each occupation, give it a rating of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, 1 being the lowest, and 5 being the highest. You are rating the occupations according to prestige or occupational importance in society according to YOUR OPINION. Rate all 20!!

Accountant
Actor
Advertising Executive
Airline Pilot
Author
Automobile Dealer
Bartender
College Professor
Firefighter
High School Teacher
House Wife
Journalist
Lawyer
Police Officer
Public Grade School Teacher
Priest
Registered Nurse
Secretary
Surgeon
Waitress

Answer 1

Here is the order I would put them in. I had a hard time with Actor since half the people think they are the scum of society and some wait on their every move. For the most part, the amount of training for the job factored in.

Surgeon
Registered Nurse
Lawyer
Firefighter
Police Officer
Advertising Executive
Public Grade School Teacher
High School Teacher
College Professor
Actor
Journalist
Airline Pilot
Accountant
Author
Automobile Dealer
Secretary
Priest
Bartender
Housewife
Waitress

Answer 2

Oh boy...this is gonna take a while:

Accountant: 1 (if we didn't have convoluted tax laws protecting the rich, we wouldn't need accountants)
Actor: 1 (seriously, nothing more than cute little monkeys banging cymbols to a tune for our amusement)
Advertising Executive:1 (their goal in life is to convince you not to save your money but to waste it on their crap.)
Airline Pilot: 3
Author: 4 (some are good, and some are bad...but the written language is the most powerful tool for change and development)
Automobile Dealer:1 (dead-beat loser! 'nuff said)
Bartender: 2 (need i say more)
College Professor 4 (the only good ones are the ones who made a living doing something other than teaching...so they have real world experience to support their knowledge base. These few lift up the many worthless ones.)
Firefighter: 5 (what is a society without its immune system)
High School Teacher: 3 (most are type B personalities sitting on their tenure. )
House Wife: 5 (ONE of the hardest, most unthanked jobs in the world. Notice God gave it to women and not men. I don't think that was a mistake.)
Journalist: 2 (propaganda-pushers...nothing more)
Lawyer:1 (over-paid ambulance chasers)
Police Officer:5 (need our immune system don't we.)
Public Grade School Teacher: 4 (setting the stage for excellence)
Priest: 4( faith moves people more than civic pride or nationalism)
Registered Nurse: 5 (see police officer)
Secretary: 3 (they represent the degree of laziness of executives)
Surgeon: 4 (many are important, plastics are not one of them)
Waitress: 5 (who else is gonna put up with our BS)