I can haz career?

National Blog Posting Month – December 2012 – Work

Prompt – Do you think you have a job or a career?

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To me, having a ‘job’ would be working for an hourly wage at something that you do only for the pay and not because of any long-term goal. ‘Jobs’ are typically positions that do not provide much (if anything) in the way of benefits or retirement plans.

A ‘career’ involves working at a single type of work (hopefully at a single place of employment) with a long-term goal of working up to higher positions and greater pay and usually includes some manner of retirement plan.

Most definitely, I have a career. It’s hard not to have a career when one has put the time into getting a Ph.D. (though it happens). I expect to be doing the same sort of work (science and teaching and maybe a little writing) until I’m ready to retire.

Further evidence that I have a career: I finally got business cards. I feel all grown up.

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