Originally Posted by
hcjilson
Enclosed, please find the definition of professional.
pro·fes·sion·al P Pronunciation Key (pr-fsh-nl)
adj.
Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.
n.
A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
A skilled practitioner; an expert.
In no definition I have read, does it say anything about protecting the profession, and certainly nothing about standards and values superceding financial gain.
Drk said "Come back in five years and let's talk about how the internet business is eroding your client base, and I'll feel less than sympathetic. You're doing it to yourselves, and others, by the way, by supporting this."
I am not interested in five years from now, I am interested in doing the best I can today. I am long past imagining I control any part of this industry and I am reasonably sure of my client base, so I'll leave the future to the soothsayers.If changes occur, as surely they must, I'll do my best to adapt, as hopefully others will do.
I am distressed at how little confidence you show in the independent practitioner, and how you seem to place the blame for today's market on others (noteably the internet, and Luxottica) in this thread.
Why does competion bother so many people?
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