Is your Job Part of your Career or Just a Job?

Are you a clue or condiment? Oliver Putnam(played by Martin Short) wonders while checking a matchbox with a red dot in the show Only Murders In the Building. Let us leave the mystery to be solved soon on this funny and cleverly written Hulu show. Along the same lines, it is difficult to know whether we are occupied by a job or a career.

1. A job becomes just a job when this is not part of your long-term career goal and aspirations.
2. A career typically has many jobs associated with it. A job without proper career planning is just a means to a paycheck.
3. A job works as a launch pad when chosen carefully to reach your desired destination.
4. Career orientation drives one to acquire new skills to reach the next step.
5. Jobs related to career plans provide satisfaction along with financial and career growth.
6. A job that is part of a career you want excites you daily, makes you look forward to new challenges, and seldom becomes stressful. Just a job only excites you on paydays and when someone recognizes your ‘hard work.’

Your job is a building block to a successful and solid career. It is always good to introspect and be in the know.