I'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,

I'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