2007-05-13 13:23:14 · 4 answers · asked by runner1 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
An expert is someone who has great skill or knowledge in a particular field. A professional is someone who makes a living by working in a particular field. One can be a professional -- make one's living -- at something without necessarily being truly expert. And one can be expert at something without necessarily making money at it.
2007-05-13 13:30:27 · answer #1 · answered by DAO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, you've asked this fine question in a country's whose do-nothing governors have left us without rights in this matter. We're dying of collectivism--postmodernist reality ignorers and reality twisters demanding and being given infallible dictator positions over every field of thought and endeavor, every corporation and evaluation--regardless of whether they know anything or are replacing with reality with pseudo-mystical nonsense and failure at result creation, evaluation, etc.
An expert is: someone who has a science of what he's doing and can apply his science to some aspects of a thing--perhaps understanding, predicting, improving, repairing, accounting for or teaching the normative state of anything--baseball, interior decorating, hygiene or constitutional science.
A professional is: someone who is able to make some part of a living wage by being paid by others to do what he does--whether he knows anything or not, can do anything or not, is normative level, really good or just plain awful at what he does.
What he "professes" may be near a zero, so he may not be an expert at all.
And an expert may know 99% of a field and be unable, due to institutionals' injustice, to be paid and allowed to do what he does better than anyone else.
That's the difference.
The expert knows and can do something about a field of knowledge succcesffuly.
The professional is being paid to work in that field, whether his knowledge and results are zero or
something better than that.
2007-05-13 20:44:09 · answer #2 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Experts are usually good at something but unpaid or participate in tournaments. Proffesionals are payed for their work because they are in "proffesional leagues", such as the NBA
2007-05-13 20:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by Jermz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difference? About 1 swimming pool, two garages, 1 Lamborhini, and one hot blonde.
2007-05-13 20:31:50 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Bernstein 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋