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career is traditionally seen as a course of successive
situations that make up a person's worklife. One can
have a sporting career or a musical career, but most
frequently "career" in the 20th century
referenced the series of jobs or positions by which
one earned one's money. It tended to look only at
the past.
As the idea of personal choice and self direction
picks up in the 21st century, aided by the power of
the Internet and the increased acceptance of people
having multiple kinds of work, the idea of a career
is shifting from a closed set of achievements, like
a chronological résumé of past jobs, to a defined
set of pursuits looking forward. In its broadest sense,
career refers to an individual’s work and life roles
over their lifespan.
In the relatively static societies before modernism,
many workers would often inherit or take up a single
lifelong position (a place or role) in the workforce,
and the concept of an unfolding career had little
or no meaning. With the spread during the Enlightenment
of the idea of progress and of the habits of individualist
self-betterment, careers became possible, if not expected. |
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