Are there any actual professionals here?

Terminal Pharmacy, the very, very, very simple answer to the question of why everything seems to relate to amateur theatre on this site is......(drum roll) "TADAAH!", it's an amateur theatre website. Personally I don't give a fetid dingo's kindney about pro theatre or pro theatre attitudes. I have no interest in being a professional or pursuing acting as a career - I simply like entertaining people. That may well be why much of the conversation relates to amateur theatre - for many (most) of us, this is a hobby and not a job