Author: sfalexi
Date: 2013-02-18 15:39
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Namely: money. You're an Army musician. That means you get paid to play. That fact alone makes you a pro.
Your standards apply to things that qualify people to turn pro, or that qualify a pro to be well-respected, or make a pro a good musician, or all of the above. But the only solid, indisputable measure of professional or not professional is whether or not anyone will hire you. Well, yeah, people who get paid to play, or make a living would be considered a pro, in a stricter sense of the definition.
I think you phrased it better than I could stating that those standards are what I expect of a pro, and things that I think would help someone BECOME a pro. They are standards that I try to hold to myself (always a work in process), and what would keep me going from attending performances or keep me recommending someone for future work.
I was also thinking a little more "loose". As in people who act "professional". Someone can be a hobbyist with taking pictures, but when you ask them for a favor to take some pictures of you and your family they arrive on-time, prepared, have all their equipment and batteries charged, and leave you with the sense that you were just taken care of. And I wouldn't hesitate to recommend someone like that to others and use the phrase, "Oh yeah. She's a pro." Looser definition, but I was leaning more towards that sense.
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