On 8/31/07, wouter van ooijen wrote: > > Wouter, > > You are a proffesional in what did you studied and worked 80% > > from your life. > > Well, that is a definition (yours). By that definition I don't qualify > for 'professional' in any field :) > > But note that it has a problem: take a person who has spend 100% of his > working life in the field AB. Clearly a professional by your definition. > Now some bigjob comes along to recategorize the working field, and he > decides to split AB into two professions, A and B. Now our former > professional has spend 50% in both fields, so he is no longer a > professional... Depends how far away are the fields. If you mean A=embedded software and B=manufacturing furniture then definitely that guy appears as not a proffesionist (even it could be) Discussion can take place but I have no time rightnow , sorry. Vasile -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist