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tcorrielus
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 Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: Careers vs. Jobs |
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| Does anyone know the difference between careers and jobs? Careers such as doctors, actors, and lawyers, and jobs such as janitors, cashiers, and fast food cooks. |
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Rhisiart_Steffan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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a job is where you don't intend on futhering your skills and get promotions and a career is where you expand your skills base and gain promotions.
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waterdogs
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| career's are usually higher paying and is easier to some extent. a job is usually low paying and is hard work. |
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Xuincherguixe
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: |
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My understanding was that a career is more broad. A job might be 'Technical Analyst'.
A career is more of a path. So 'Working with Computers', one starts out on the help desk (my heart weeps for you) and ends up as management (my heart weeps for you, but the arm chair socialist in me wants to murder you)
I think also that career can also describe things that get you money, but aren't neccessarily jobs. Such as professional gambling, or investing. |
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ljbouchard
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A career is a group of job that get successivly harder but pay more as you move up the scale whereas a job may or may not be one of the rungs on the scale.
Ex - Software Engineer Career:
Jobs - SE intern -> Software Engineer -> Associate Software Engineer -> Lead Engineer -> Architect -> Manager
Supermarket Butcher (Yes, that is a career):
Cart Pusher -> Meat Room Clerk (or cleaner) -> Meat room wrapper -> Apprentace Butcher -> Journeyman Butcher -> Meat room Manager
Please note that you can stop at certain jobs in a career or some paths may not lead to management. You can also go backwards depending on economic conditions.
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ffanken
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| waterdogs wrote: | | career's are usually higher paying and is easier to some extent. a job is usually low paying and is hard work. |
There are some exeptions from the rule: "career's are usually higher paying". Artists have careers, not jobs. Mostly they live in poverty. They MAY have temporary jobs if they do not sell enough or if they do not get scholarships.
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Xuincherguixe
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| ljbouchard wrote: | A career is a group of job that get successivly harder but pay more as you move up the scale whereas a job may or may not be one of the rungs on the scale.
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I would say that a career in this sense sequence of related jobs. If we're talking about Wage Slavery, ones progression may not be into a harder position, but something that may be percieved of as being harder. Higher Status and Higher Pay maybe, but the specific job is not harder.
And again, careers can also just be stuff people do for a living. Contract Work, Freelance Artists, Stock Market investing are all careers rather than jobs. |
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