Looking for jobs - career newspaper headlines. Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's ""course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)"". It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education). A career is mostly seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person's occupation. One can have a sporting career or a musical career without being a professional athlete or musician, 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. Image is captured in 12 bit RAW and processed in Adobe RGB color space. [File:xxx; Lot:35]