Cox, Bruce scripsit:
> In graduate school (1980) we agreed that a professional is someone who
> will do the right thing based on extensive knowledge of the domain,
> whether or not the customer knows to ask for it. Today, I’d say
> it this way: A professional is someone trusted to do the right thing
> based on extensive knowledge of the domain, whether or not the customer
> knows enough to ask for it.
I think it's also the case that in a profession you apply knowledge you
got from a book (basically). In a job, being ditch-digging or being
President of the United States, you apply whatever you already have to
doing what needs to be done.
--
John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan
If he has seen farther than others,
it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves.
--Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)
