Career

“ "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.”

“In the 21st century, 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 in the future.”

Along with countless rotations of the earth the term career rotated to a thing of the future from a thing of the past. Centuries give certain words new meaning. These “new meanings” many a time contradict with some people who like to retain the words with there old meaning or sometimes giving them new meaning. Some, in this case, think that “ “career” Is just another 21^st century invention”.

People now “make their career”, when rather what they make should have been their career. The objective is to make career. When the objective would have been to do what they do best or have to do for circumstances, then someday turn back and realize his career. Nowadays things do not define the career rather the career defines the things to come. Like one will take a field because there is good “career” opportunities. Its like living others dreams.

Money has made the matters more complicated. Running after money has become the new definition of career. Like a successful businessman (say) is nowadays considered perfect to counsel an engineer (say), because he earns good money and the engineer wants to do the same thing. So its like whatever be the discipline, they are all the same in a major way.