From a discussion on what makes a "Professional" writer, but I think the
definition is a good one.“professional” means 1) someone whose work can determine his client’s life and/or liberty, and 2) who usually deals with clients on a one-on-one basis, where the client is unlikely to be able to judge the quality of the work at least until it’s too late to make a difference. These two things define the level of trustability in the competence of the professional that is required.
I would probably add to #1 "or end up costing a very large amount of money" defined as a large multiplier of what the client is paying for your service.
Our work sure qualifies under the first point, and while large shops have checks in place, Snowden has shown that even the NSA can't prevent a rouge Sysadmin from doing series damage, and is no different than a large Engineering or Law firm that can attempt to put in similar checks, but can't possibly hope to prevent all problems.
thoughts? David Lang
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