A Career is a path of professional development.
When I develop in my chosen profession, I have a career.
A career is driven by the need to achieve, the need to be better than & the need to be acknowledged.
It is the effect of the belief that money makes you wealthy, which gives you the power to achieve; the belief that status gives you the authority to influence others, which make you better than them; and the belief that knowledge give you the ability to be acknowledged as a powerful authority and a wise person.
A career is followed by ‘white-collar’ workers.
White collar workers go into businesses or professions.
The most knowledgeable profess to be a professional.
The most powerful run their own business,
The highest status comes with the leadership or governance of others.
Professional accomplishment determines authority & status.
Careers are the path of the Middle Classes.
Traditionally, the Upper Class had no need to work and no need of a career.