Related for Kiddushin 163:11
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> תנו רבנן כל שעסקיו עם הנשים סורו רע כגון הצורפים והסריקים והנקורות והרוכלין והגרדיים והספרים והכובסים והגרע והבלן והבורסקי אין מעמידים מהם לא מלך ולא כהן גדול מאי טעמא לא משום דפסילי אלא משום דזיל אומנותיהו
pedlars, wool-dressers, barbers,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Women take their children to them.');"><sup>27</sup></span> launderers, bloodletters,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a scraper', one who makes incisions in the skin to draw off blood.');"><sup>28</sup></span> bath attendants and tanners. Of these neither a king nor a High Priest may be appointed.
Tosefta Kiddushin
Any man who is occupied with women/wives shouldn't be secluded with women/wives, e.g. those who sell nets, who sell flax or hatchelled wool, weavers, perfume sellers, tailors, barbers, launderers, whetters [of millstones]. (Translated from Ehrfurt manuscript:) Rabbi Meir says: There is no trade that passes from the world but woe to a man who sees his parents in an unfit trade. Rabbi says: A man should strive to teach his son a clean and easy trade, and pray to the One to Whom wealth belongs, for there is no trade that doesn't have in it poverty and wealth; this is to tell you that wealth and poverty doesn't come from trade [but from God].
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