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Originally Posted by Windguy
I agree with this thinking. I feel the same way about titles such as “sailor” and “astronaut.”
I’m not a sailor because I go on a cruise and no one is an astronaut just because they took a joy ride in a suborbital rocket. A far as I’m concerned, you don’t deserve such titles unless you do it for a living.
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If I take my Sunfish sail boat out on the lake, I'm a sailor. It's my sailboat, I'm the one steering it and setting the sail, coming about, doing all the work (a Sunfish is a single-person sailboat). I don't do it for a living, I do it because I like sailing.