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Posted by Sawney Beane on 04/17/06 19:33
David McCall wrote:
> "Phil Wheeler" <w6tuh-ng7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:X1N0g.4386$543.673@tornado.socal.rr.com...
>> Steve House wrote:
>>> "Professional" is a matter of attitude rather than pay or whether one
>>> does it for a source of income.
>> Perhaps in your mind. But you should buy a dictionary someday.
>>
> The term is used more than one way. To some it only means that
> you get paid (hopefully well paid) to do what you do, but it has little
> do with the quality of your work, or what kind of attitude you have.
> Sadly a lot of union people have this perspective. Non-union people
> usually don't last very long with this approach.
>
> While others think of it in the context of professionalism, and feel
> that it is all about doing quality work, and having a good work
> attitude and ethic. You don't even have to make any money to
> be professional in the way you accomplish work you do.
>
> The best of both worlds is when you can put the two together.
>
> David
>
>
"Profession" came into English in the 13th Century to mean the vows for
entering a religious order. It came to mean three privileged
occupations: clergy, lawyers, and doctors. In the 19th and 20th
Centuries, the term was increasingly used to include other skilled
occupations. For example, at one time a nurse was hired as a servant.
Now a nurse is expected to know more than the patient, probably more
than the employer, and perhaps more than the doctor, so nursing is a
profession.
Late in the 19th Century, as more people were learning skilled
occupations as leisure activities, "professional" came to be used to
exclude amateurs. Along came the Wrights, amateurs whose approach to
aeronautics was far more competent than that of renowned professionals
like Langley. To say the Wrights were more than hobbyists, the
criterion for professionalism must be competence and not employment.
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