stress-FREEDOM » amateur http://stress-freedom.net Epicurean Happiness Guidance Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 my professional amateurism http://stress-freedom.net/2009/05/my-professional-amateurism/ http://stress-freedom.net/2009/05/my-professional-amateurism/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 02:20:09 +0000 Galenios http://stress-freedom.net/?p=96 For my professional amateurism I use the definitions of:

 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amateur

amateur

-noun

1. a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.

 

2. an athlete who has never competed for payment or for a monetary prize.

 

3. a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity: Hunting lions is not for amateurs.

 

4. a person who admires something; devotee; fan: an amateur of the cinema.

professional

1. following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.

 

2. of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies.

 

3. appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity.

 

4. engaged in one of the learned professions: A lawyer is a professional person.

 

5. following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime: a professional golfer.

 

6. making a business or constant practice of something not properly to be regarded as a business: “A salesman,” he said, “is a professional optimist.”

 

7. undertaken or engaged in as a means of livelihood or for gain: professional baseball.

 

8. of or for a professional person or his or her place of business or work: a professional apartment; professional equipment.

 

9. done by a professional; expert: professional car repairs.

 

Using “amateur” in its sense #1 and “professional” in its sense # 5 above I should say that being a dedicated stressFREEDOMguide is being a professional amateur: I’m doing it for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime, likea professional golfer.

Or using the original meaning of the root words: (profitērī to declare publicly, and amātor lover, equiv. to amā- (s. of amāre to love) + -tor ) I openly declare that I love to do what I’m doing: get people stress-FREE.

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