Using the word "amateur" to mean "inexperienced" or "unskilled" is a smell, or, more precisely, an equivocation: It lumps not being paid to do something with do

Using the word "amateur" to mean "inexperienced" or "unskilled" is a smell, or, more precisely, an equivocation: It lumps not being paid to do something with doing that thing poorly, which definitely aren't the same thing.