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Confessions of a Professional!!!

I'd always held the opinion that for everyday contentment, one needs to work on something that one enjoys doing most..so that it dosen't seem like "work". "Pursue your passion, and get paid for it"...I jabbered in school. "Convert your passion to profession", I blabbered in college. Let me try to define profession and passion here. There are a lot of web-definitions for a "professional" - Here are a few interesting ones: 1. The Devil's Advocate definition: A professional is one who is supposed to know everything about something and nothing about the remaining. 2. The Wiki definition: A professional is a worker required to possess a large body of knowledge about something derived from extensive formal academic study. 3. The one I like most: One that is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood. I'm sure all of we, professionals would fit into one or more of the above definitions to justify our "professional ethics&q