How do you define a "job" versus a "career"?
By maezee
@maezee (41988)
United States
April 14, 2013 12:02pm CST
When you apply for a job, it seems as though employers love to use the "career" keyword to glamorize the job. Even applying for McDonalds, they consider working the drive-thru a "career". Whereas the term "job" carries a stigma, a working class type of a stigma. I consider my job a "job" rather than a "career".
"Career" to me seems glamorized. Perhaps in a good company, well-paying, above entry-level job with tons of advancement opportunities. Maybe the difference between a "job" and a "career" is that you dislike a job, but you like your career.
I sort of dislike my job..It's monotonous and I dislike the way upper mangement and our corporate office operates. (I won't get into that rant, I'll save that for another day... Ha, ha).
How do you define a "job" versus a "career"? Do you see a huge difference, like I do? What kind of work do you do-- do you have a "job" or a "career", and why do you call it what you do? Or is there no discernable difference?
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6 responses
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
14 Jan 16
I guess it is a career if you have aspirations for promotion in that particular field to excel in your job. Some find even menial work gratifying and knowing you have made a difference to someone is a great esteem booster. Some people who think they are professional career people should not be in that profession at all.
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@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
17 Apr 13
I think you could never call it a career until you've stayed in a particular field for quite some time. It may even involved changing jobs a few times, but still the same area or industry. Then it would say that you like being in that kind of work or industry which makes you stay, even if you hated the particular job.
@stary1 (6612)
• United States
14 Apr 13
maezee
In my opinion a job is what you do for money while deciding on or working on a career.
A good example is those who waitress and waiter or work at Micky D's or Starbucks while building an acting career. Many movie stars have gone that route.
A career has a future, while a job is a temporary means to an end.
While working in a career one can sometimes feel it is 'just a job' because no work is fun all the time, 24/7
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@fearlessgara (1113)
• Philippines
16 Apr 13
for me job is a work to get a source of income, while a career working and building a a reputation, expertise in specific job.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14352)
• West Haven, Connecticut
14 Jan 16
To me a job is something your doing to earn money and its most likely somehting you dont enjoy doing, a career on the other hand is when you went to college for a degree and are working in the field you studied for ect
