Do you play guitar Professionally or for Pleasure

I've been musing on how part time work like playing music is described differently than other work. If you only perform occasionally, you're a "semi-pro" musician. So if you also moonlight at the local grocery store for extra money, are you also a "semi-pro" stock clerk?

"I mean, I could go pro, but you know how dog-eat-dog the stock clerk game is. I just like stocking shelves for the enjoyment, you know? You should check out my awesome collection of aprons some time."

It’d probably make more sense if we called ourselves full-time, part time-time, or volunteer musicians... but I don’t make the rules and I doubt this musing is going to change anything.
 
I do gig regularly as a singer and play rhythm guitar on some of our bands tunes. That is about the extent of my 'playing out' currently.
 
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