By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.
When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
I've acted professionally since I was 16.
My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.
Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.
I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.