At 10:10 AM 4/5/2009, you wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 23:45, John Day <john.day@siliconrailway.com> wrote:
> > At 01:09 AM 4/4/2009, you wrote:
>
> > Just look carefully at the word professional. If you are a technician
> > then by definition you are not a professional.
>
>Your definition of definition is by definition not definite.
>
>First hit on dictionary.com for "professional":
>
>=ADadjective
>1.      following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a
>professional builder.

Touche!

Yes, the dictionary definition of professional is =

rather indefinite isn't it. But that definition =

is so ill defined that it means that anybody =

working for gain is a professional, doesn't it?

The builder is constrained by codes, and in many =

instances by the need to get engineering =

computations for things which are not directly =

covered by those codes. He works under the =

ultimate supervision of a building inspector or =

some similar official, he cannot say "your house =

is ready for you" until the inspecting authority =

has inspected his work, deemed it compliant and =

if necessary had any deficiencies corrected.

However, my definition of a professional is =

perhaps way too narrow, particularly in the =

social context we seem to be dealing with.

John


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