ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author demonstrates how very much alike serious leisure and devotee work actually are. He observed earlier that every professional field in art, science, sport, and entertainment made its debut with a gang of enthusiastic amateurs who pioneered the way. He aims to put some empirical meat on the theoretical bones, by showing how both these leisure participants and their allied occupational devotees are motivated and rewarded by nearly identical interests. He concerns not with nonwork obligations but with the nature of lifestyles in the other two zones that spring up around serious leisure and devotee work. The social world of the professional, classical music orchestra musician is most complicated. Occupational devotees entering their work career after a period of pure amateurism or hobbyism, do so at the establishment stage, whereas those who entering from a preprofessional or "preapprentice" stage do this at the development stage.
