Not so.
Professional Amateurs all
I think the definition below of the word "Amateur" about sums it up for us all.
"Word History: When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, I am no amateur of these melons, she used amateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, a lover, an admirer, is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source, amtor, lover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective,
Above from: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Amateur
We were professionals before we were amatuers.