A creative professional is a person who is employed for the extraction
of skills in creative endeavors. Creative professions include writing,
art, design, theater, television, radio, motion pictures, related
crafts, as well as marketing, strategy, some aspects of scientific
research and development, product development, some types of teaching
and curriculum design, and more. Since many creative professionals
(actors and writers, for example) are also employed in secondary
professions, estimates of creative professionals are often inaccurate.
By some estimates, approximately 10 million US workers are creative
professionals; depending upon the depth and breadth of the definition,
this estimate may be doubled.