Was a recording engineer too and stopped because it broke my ability to sit down and appreciate listening to music: I had to analyse it "professionally". Mick J

Was a recording engineer too and stopped because it broke my ability to sit down and appreciate listening to music: I had to analyse it "professionally". Mick Jagger said once he would only listen to classic on the radio. I can believe that. In some areas of human creation being an amateur is necessary. A simple example: China has an enormous corpus of classical painting and poetry, no part of it has been created by professionals. Add: to me writing code is an activity that can be enjoyed professionally, unlike music.