I am not a business, and don't want to be. I am a professional.
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Why IT contractors don’t always build empires
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Originally posted by expatI am not a business, and don't want to be. I am a professional.
Anyway, IT monkeys are not 'professionals'.
Doctors are 'professionals', lawyers are 'professionals'.
There is no recognised professional qualification for IT and no professional standards body.
Professional my arse!
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by bogeymanSounds a bit like 'disguised employee' to me.
Anyway, IT monkeys are not 'professionals'.
Doctors are 'professionals', lawyers are 'professionals'.
There is no recognised professional qualification for IT and no professional standards body.
Professional my arse!Comment
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Originally posted by bogeymanSounds a bit like 'disguised employee' to me.
Anyway, IT monkeys are not 'professionals'.
Doctors are 'professionals', lawyers are 'professionals'.
There is no recognised professional qualification for IT and no professional standards body.
Professional my arse!
I mean professional in the sense that what I want do is apply my (IMHO rare) knowledge and ability to solve problems for clients, not build a business. "Employee", disguised or otherwise, is irrelevant. That is part of the argument of business vs employee. I don't care, it's like metal desk or wooden desk, laptop or desktop. It's just a tool or method, not the object.
"Professional" as you put it is probably irrelevant too: that's a status rather than an activity.Comment
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Originally posted by AtWProfessionals in American sense probably.
It is not I who am fixated on business vs employee: that is only a status, not an activity.Comment
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Originally posted by expatYour arse may be professional, I wouldn't know.
I mean professional in the sense that what I want do is apply my (IMHO rare) knowledge and ability to solve problems for clients, not build a business. "Employee", disguised or otherwise, is irrelevant. That is part of the argument of business vs employee. I don't care, it's like metal desk or wooden desk, laptop or desktop. It's just a tool or method, not the object.
"Professional" as you put it is probably irrelevant too: that's a status rather than an activity.
If you want to stay a one-man business then fine. Nobody is forcing you to grow.
It just sounds so pretentious to say, "oh no, I'm not trade! I'm a professional, don't you know".
You are indeed correct that the word Professional implies a status and level of achievement which is valued by those who do hold professional qualifications. Calling yourself a professional devalues that status for those who are entitled to it.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by bogeymanIf you are providing services to clients then you are a business.
If you want to stay a one-man business then fine. Nobody is forcing you to grow.
It just sounds so pretentious to say, "oh no, I'm not trade! I'm a professional, don't you know".
You are indeed correct that the word Professional implies a status and level of achievement which is valued by those who do hold professional qualifications. Calling yourself a professional devalues that status for those who are entitled to it.Comment
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Although I am not hands on technical any more, I used to like thinking of myself as a craftsman. Programming is more like a craft than anything else. Like a carpenter you use your tools to (hopefully) build an elegant and robust product.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by bogeymanIf you are providing services to clients then you are a business.
If you want to stay a one-man business then fine. Nobody is forcing you to grow.
It just sounds so pretentious to say, "oh no, I'm not trade! I'm a professional, don't you know".
You are indeed correct that the word Professional implies a status and level of achievement which is valued by those who do hold professional qualifications. Calling yourself a professional devalues that status for those who are entitled to it.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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