The combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime.
Your career basically dictates a lot of things in your life. It can determine your lifestyle, of relationships, balance you will be able to keep with your life, your responsibilities
Job
A position an individual holds doing specific duties
Occupation
A broader category that encompasses a group of related jobs that share similar characteristics, skills, functions
Blue collar jobs
Involves a greater degree of physically taxing or manual labor
White collar jobs
Typically work in office settings in clerical, administrative, and management roles
Trait and factor model
A popular career development model that believes the skills and abilities need to fit the demands of a particular career field
John Holland
A popular career counselor who proposed a theory that strongly believes that certain careers require certain personality traits and must also fit our interests
Donald Super
He believes that sense we play an array of roles in our lives, these roles are likely to change over time does requirements, needs, and other external forces would come into play when we are trying to figure out or maintain a career
