The word means:

• Any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level of education;
• The people who do a particular type of work, considered as a group.

Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/profession

A profession is something we are good at and something we get Paid for.

Yes, we required a set of skills in order to Perform the task ahead. And we probably learn those skills by doing a form of education or by practicing them. It might take us years before we have mastered a Skill. There's a correlation between the difficulty of a skill and the amount of money you earn from performing that skill. The easier the skill, the less money you earn, because there are a lot of other people that can perform that skill. The more difficult it is to perform the skill, the higher you get to earn, because you might be one of the few who can do that.

But you don't get paid per hour, you get paid by the value you add to the market. That was a thing I had to learn from Jim Rohn.