RE: [tlug] Speaking of computer usage ....

["Kenneth M Burling Jr" <burlingk@example.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tlug-bounces@example.com [mailto:tlug-bounces@example.com On Behalf Of
> Stephen J. Turnbull
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:24 PM
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [tlug] Speaking of computer usage ....
> 
> Dave Brown writes:
> 
>  > What you're talking about up there is craftsmanship, not
>  > professionalism.
> 
> My mistake, but I intend to persist in it.
> 

Professional means someone that does something as a profession.

Ironically, what you described is more fitting to the definition of Amateur, someone who does something for the love of it.  Modern English uses words strangely.  A craftsman or a journeyman WILL be an amateur as well as a professional.  :-)  Neither word has anything to do with the level of training.  That is just an assumption made by people who speak the language.

Believe me, I know plenty of professionals that know squat about their job.  :P

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Ken