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If you can get paid to do it, is it not a profession?
by aqme28 4y ago
If you can get paid to do it, is it not a profession?
- circlefavshape 4y agoI'd have thought a profession was something you made a living from, not something you sometimes got some money for - I sometimes get paid to play music in bars, but music is not my profession. Neither Philip Larkin nor Seamus Heaney made a living from poetry, so I'd guess nobody else does either
- martyvis 4y agoDepends on how you think about the act of professing. Taking it literally it would be those that profess - articulate, exude, demonstrate, apply - their knowledge, skill and experience. Remuneration could be seen as irrelevant in this context.