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A 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
individuals 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.
Career counseling advisors assess people's interests, personality,
values and skills, and also help them explore career options and
research graduate and professional schools. Career counseling
provides one-on-one or group professional assistance in exploration
and decision making tasks related to choosing a major/occupation,
transitioning into the world of work or further professional
training. The field is vast and includes career placement, career
planning, learning strategies and student development.
By the late 20th century a plethora of choices (especially in the
range of potential professions) and more widespread education had
allowed it to become fashionable to plan (or design) a career: in
this respect the careers of the career counsellor and of the career
advisor have grown up. It is also not uncommon for adults in the
late 20th/early 21st centuries to have dual or Multiple Careers,
either sequentially or concurrently. Thus, professional identities
have become hyphenated or hybridized to reflect this shift in work
ethic. Economist Richard Florida notes this trend generally and
more specifically among the "Creative class."
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Job refers to a piece of work or a task. Specifically, it may refer
to
* The Activity of economic production, also called employment or
labor.
* A scheduled and/or automated task for a computer in a batch
processing Environment.
Job or Jobs may also have the following meanings.
* Biblically, Job refers to:
o The Book of Job (sometimes misspelled Jobe), part of the Tanakh,
the Jewish Bible; and of the Christian Old Testament.
o Job (Biblical figure) (sometimes misspelled Jobe), the main
character of the Book of Job.
o One of the Minor characters in the Book of Genesis
* CEO of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs
* Used in Pop Culture
o Used as a verb in Professional wrestling. "To job" means to lose
or lie down.
o Jobs is the name of a major character from K. A. Applegate's
Remnants series.
* Geography
o Job, Kentucky; the zip code is 41225
o Job, West Virginia; the zip code is 26274
* Jobs is the name of a major character from K. A. Applegate's
Remnants series.
