One of the goals the Rescue Mission, and I assume all great organizations, aspire to is to perform their service to the customer with a level of professionalism. To my understanding that means to serve with the excellence and commitment of someone who was so good that people would actually PAY them to do that service.
Professionalism=good
Profesional=bad
Let me explain. Too often someone who is a professional only does the bare minimal, the exact standard that was required in the financial arrangement that they struck. It was a transaction.
An Amateur on the other hand, does something for the love of it. Most people hear the word amateur and they think novice and beginner. Not so. The root of amateur is AMA- to love. An amateur is someone who literally does something for love.
It would be a worthy goal for each of us to do our job as if we were an amateur (for the love of it) and not just a professional (for the paycheck). As soon as you start thinking you’re a professional, you lose something. Can you be paid to do something and still do it for love? Absolutely.
No professionals nee apply, only amateurs.
David Curry
