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A Professional provides a service in exchange for payment in accordance with established protocols for licensing, ethics, procedures, standards of service and training/certification. A professional is a member of a licensing body which is legally established within the laws of a given state, county, province or nation. The term "professional" is widely used to refer to individuals with recognized expertise within a field of endeavor even though they are not a member of a licensing body or legal entity. The distinction between professional sports and amateur sports simply refers to how the athlete is funded. Similarily the distinction within creative pursuits between professional and amateur becomes somewhat grey. Historically, behaving professionally would indicate that the person's actions remain in accordance with specific rules, written or unwritten, pertaining to behavior, dress, speech, etc. By extension, the adjective ''professional'' identified somebody recognized for Expertise or Skill in a Craft or activity. In narrow usage, not all expertise is considered a profession. Although sometimes referred to as professions, such occupations as skilled Construction work are more generally thought of as Trade s or Crafts . The completion of an Apprenticeship is generally associated with skilled labor or Trades such as Carpenter , Electrician , Plumber , and other similar Occupation s. In cases lacking a licensing body, the opposite of a professional is an Amateur or, disparagingly, "rank amateur." Sometimes an amateur can perform as well or better than a professional. Therefore, in many fields a person must overcome a barrier before gaining recognition as a professional. Such barriers include Academic Degree s, Certification , or License s. Professions with such barriers include those of Accountancy , Architecture , Medicine , Engineering , Intelligence , Law , Librarianship , Realtor , Scuba Instructor , Xray Technologist , Social Work and Teaching . In the strictest sense, a profession is created by legislation and is self-regulating. SPORT See Also: Professional sport In sports, a professional is someone who participates for money. The opposite is amatuer, meaning a person that has not played for money, but usually through an academic setting (e.g. college football). Sometimes the professional status of an activity is controversial, for example there is debate as to whether or not Professionals should be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games . The motivation for money is sometimes seen as a corrupting influence, tainting a sport. It has been suggested that the crude, all or nothing categories, of professional or amateur should be reconsidered. A historical shift is occurring with the rise of Pro-Ams , a new category of people that are pursuing amateur activities to professional standards. In chess, a professional generally means a player with an official ranking. Amatetures are those without official rankings, they have never played in a 'ranked' game. Including nursing. EQUIPMENT Equipment is considered professional-grade (as opposed to consumer grade) is it of a standard higher than available to the general public. As a result of industry lobbying by music and film studios, certain laws that mandate copyright protection mechanisms in consumer excempt professional grade equipment in playing and recording audio (audio tape, CD) and video (VHS, DVD players) (see DMCA). Usually the equipment is of a higher cost to make it not generally avaiable to the public. SEE ALSO |
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