Understanding the Difference between Job and a Career

Understanding the difference between Job and a Career is important. A job is something you do simply to earn money and career is a series of connected employment opportunities. A job has a very minimal impact on your future life, while a career provides you experience and learning to fuel the future. A job offers few networking opportunities, while a career is loaded with them. Job will motive you form external factors whereas the career is motivated form internal factors

What lead to a Job and a Career ?

Job is what! A person does it in exchange for money and which is led by skills and knowledge of person.

A career is the pursuit of a long life goal and which is led by training on the certain ability and experience.

Job will give you instant rewards that may peak sooner, whereas career long term rewards with continuous career progression. Job is Hard-work and individual contribution which makes the individual growth and career is proactive development, plan result into growth and professional brand.

How does a Job affect your Career ?

You will likely hold many jobs throughout the career, even if you do not have the set career path in mind when you first join the workplace. It may be helpful to consider every position that you fill as a step in your life’s work. So your job can affect your career in the following ways :

Jobs make up your career- Like a career consists all the jobs that you have worked, regardless of whether the jobs are associated with each other. You could spend so much time in working a job in the same department of the organization. Alternatively, you could work many same or unrelated jobs over your lifetime, such as greens keeper, executive assistant and information technology specialist. They all define the career and can connect you to the other opportunity that you are passionate about. Think of the jobs as a short term duties that can help you to achieve your long term goals.

You learn from each job- You will gain a variety of skills, knowledge and experiences. For instance, maybe your job as a retail clerk taught you how to handle difficult situation with tact. Your receptionist position may have taught you good communication and customer service skills. Other roles might help develop your writing skills, develop your ability to handle rejection or teach you the value of perseverance and hard work.

Jobs provide you with networking opportunities-You build a network and a community of professional contacts with each job. If you maintain a productive and professional relationship with all your colleagues and clients you can provide yourself with the ability to reach out to connection throughout your career.

Hard work pays off- Your current job could affect your career in many ways that you can’t expect. For this reason, try to go beyond doing the bare minimum. A positive outlook, an eagerness to learn and consistently high quality work can set you apart, create new opportunities and earn your recommendations for future jobs.

Conclusion

Just think about it if you are able to grow other’s business why not yours? If so is you are doing job, then grab all knowledge, experience and ideas from that job to indicate your career.

Job will give you many attempts to learn and enhance your skills. job is one of the best aspect to learn knowledge and enhancing your skills by working with passions so that you can achieve your task or ambition by which you can overcome with your fears and make your career more effectively.

People say, “Mind your own business” so make it happen be an entrepreneur to achieve the complete freedom which mean financial freedom as well as time freedom.

Submitted By: Naman Papreja| Sumit Singh
(PGDM Batch 2019-21)