What do you consider to be "professional"?

Question

What would you classify as being a professional?

For example; a person wins a tennis tournament only once, and never to be heard of again

OR

a person who consistently is in the "middle-rank" of the field, but never wins that tournament.

Answer 1

You're talking about the difference between champions and middle of the road athletes. Professionalism is a mindset in which the person concerned ( a doctor, nurse, dancer, actor, newscaster, lawyer, etc.) make constant improvement a daily goal. Professionals often set aside familial concerns to work extra hours. Professionals ostensibly have a code of ethics they follow. Professionals are completely dedicated to their particular profession.

Answer 2

when your skilled at it

or mastered it

Answer 3

Having a career, that you are highly skilled at, or even mastered your skills at a certain level, on a certain subjucet...

Answer 4

Obedience to the offered external conditions , rules, and regulations...In another word not being yourself, but being something else, in that case ,  being"professional"

Answer 5

A "professional" is one who makes money at something as his vocation. A tennis player may make money doing advertising on his fame, or winning money at tourneys. It becomes his vocation.

But someone who makes no money with his talent has an "avocation."

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Answer 6

Someone who knows what they are doing... no matter of their back ground