[Dixielandjazz] DJML Member Survey Results Thus Far

[Kurt]

I should have not used the word "professional" and attached it to the word
"musician" in the survey.  I guess what I was trying to say was "who are the
DJML member who play in organized bands for pay".


  -----Original Message-----
  From: OArkas at aol.com [mailto:OArkas at aol.com]
  Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:40 PM
  To: bowermastergroup at qwest.net
  Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] DJML Member Survey Results Thus Far



  In a message dated 1/11/04 10:00:18 AM, bowermastergroup at qwest.net writes:




    Let's hear from all 400 members to see what kind of results we get.  If
you
    want to be included, respond to any post that has "DJML Member Survey"
in
    the subject line.



  Hi:
  I held back from answering the survey and participating, because like
some topics, it depends on what a person uses for the definition of
"professional."  Now, one definition is a person who works in one of the
old, traditional "professions": ie medicine, law, or education.  Another is
any person from any occupation who is paid for his/her services.  Another is
a person who works full time in that occupation and no other.  I am a Greek
folk musician, and from those "professionals" in Greece I got the definition
(and there is an elitism about it) that a person who solely works as a
musician is a true professional.
  Personally, I guess my definition is that if a person is paid well for
his/her services, then that person is a professional (even is he/she does
other work.  Remember when in athletics an amateur was someone who was never
paid.  So by my "middle of the road" definition, I've been a professional
musician since about 1962.  I've always been well paid, well above union
scale, but I have no problem with the other definition that a professional
is someone who makes his/her sole living from that person's occupation.
  Cheers,
  John
  (Kalakos)



  John Pappas
  oArkas at aol.com