Dennis Plunkett wrote:
> Question for everyone->
> Why do we think that people whom have a hobby of electronics are better?
> Before you answer that contemplate this off the cuff situation:-
> Do you care that your family doctor does not practice surgery as a hobby?

I think that the word "hobby" here means;

1) you don't keep an eye at the clock at the wall when working on it,

2) you don't give up easily,

3) mostly when working a hobby you don't worry about the money involved
as you can worry about other things prices,

4) you can feel pleasure to do it, so you will do it better.

Yes, I would choose a doctor who feels pleasure to do a successful
surgery, even if nobody will notice how nice and laborious were the
internal stitches, rather than the one that is just thinking about the
money.  It takes few more minutes to make nice stitches that won't leave
scars, but only those who enjoy his job can do this "upgrade" for free.

The word "professional" is someone that is well prepared to the job, and
this also means lots of learning time and dedication, in great part
found in people's hobby developed by practice and more practice.

As an example, it is very difficult to find a hobby shop sales clerk
that doesn't play with his airplane or racing car at the weekends,
rather than a guy who keeps watching TV games and drinking beer all
weekend long, even if this lazy guy is known as an "expert" in airplane
models I would not trust him.

All the great inventions were not done because somebody was paying the
inventor to do that, but because the inventor's creativity, dedication
and effort to do the extra step, most of the time to just feel happy and
joyful that something extra was done, ended up in things that all the
humanity enjoys today.

Take a electronic hobby person and give him a project that will take 12
months to be completed, than give him all the electronic instrumentation
he needs, computers, books, manuals, internet access, components and
all...  that person probably will not complain so much if the job would
be done in a company, his home, garage or even inside a jail cell. The
"thing" itself is what moves that person to do the job, not his boss,
not his job responsibilities, not his low bank account.