Extending her own playing career as a fully fledged professional will temporarily put a brake on Clark's coaching ambitions with the mens' team at Chesham Stags and Bucks New University in High Wycombe; she has also been driving from Buckinghamshire to Worcester two or three times a week to train and play club rugby.
In the end, juggling school and a fully fledged professional career is tough.
Hafferty argues that in order to develop as a fully fledged professional, the student must understand the profession's values and norms and that this means they must be supported in obtaining the appropriate opportunities [ 11].
I am a fully fledged healthcare professional; tie, master's degree, professional body et al. I was educated and trained to provide a clinical service, which I do – helping many patients further understand their medications and potentially saving them from harm.
They have been relegated 21 points off fourth-from-bottom Rotherham, and who could be the remotest bit surprised bearing in mind a week before the season started the club employed eight fully-fledged professional footballers?
People covered by Daca are likely to be even more productive, because many of them have university degrees and legal status allows them to jump straight from dishwasher to fully-fledged professional.
"I am a fully-fledged professional boxer instead of a semi-professional," he said.
As for Mitchell himself, this summer marks the home-grown 30-year-old Worcestershire-born captain's 10th as a fully-fledged professional cricketer.
"A talented few will become fully professional inside three to five years but generally it will take longer," says Quest. "For a youngster entering at 16, he will probably be nearer 26 or so before he could claim to be a fully-fledged professional," he explains.
Similarly, in a recent paper Cruess et al. argue for a radical change in how we teach and assess professionalism because of the close relationship between developing PSI and developing as a fully-fledged professional [ 8].
