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What are hobbies for some people are professions for others: for example, a computer game tester may enjoy cooking as a hobby, while a professional chef might enjoy playing (and helping to debug) computer games. Generally speaking, the person who does something for fun and not for remuneration is called an amateur (or hobbyist), as distinguished from a professional?.
An important determinant of what is considered a hobby, as distinguished from a profession, is probably how easy it is to make a living at the activity. Almost no one can make a living at stamp collecting, but many people find it enjoyable; so it is commonly regarded as a hobby.
While some hobbies seem to most people to be trivial and uninteresting, the hobbyist has found something compelling and entertaining about the activity. Much early scientific research was, in effect, a hobby of the wealthy; in the present day, Linux began as a student's hobby.
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