Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Definition of a Professional
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:21:48 +0000

Mark Rabiner wrote:
>What if you earned a Minor part of your total living in Photographer?.
>When someone tries to hire you should you give them fair warning? Should
>it say so in your Yellow Pages add?
>I can see my yellow pages add 15 years ago:
>"And now after five years struggling as a hospital orderly on weekends
>to support my photostudio on the weekdays I now (as a result of a single
>job I did for Georgia Pacific) make more shooting than I do pushing
>wheelchairs. I am now a real Professional photograher! So hire me for
*&%&()*^%$."
>No, I think its a question of commitment and somebody gives you a dollar
>for a print at one point.
>

So are you telling us that a highly committed photographer who earns $12
selling 12 prints in 1998 (and who also collects more than that from social
security) is called a professional?  

What in your view constitutes a fair warning for clients? 

Dan K.