What is a career?

What does it really mean to make a career? Is it to advance within the company's hierarchy? To earn a lot of money? To create something of value? Perhaps to get more responsibility? Or just feel that you like your job? There are as many answers as there are people with jobs.

At Wikipedia the definition of a career is:

"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. A person's worth is often measured by the career success or failings"

I believe that we nowadays have a broader interpretation of the concept. One can advance both horizontally as well as vertically within an organization. Even if the desire to make a career often is seen as something evident it is more about the importance of the work enhancing life, it should be self-developing and not the least a pleasure! It is also about reaching a balance between the professional life and the personal life.

Personally I see my career as a journey where the goal is to:

• Reach my full potential


• Continously develop my competence


• Grasp all opportunities and make the best out of them


• Reach my goals


• Feel that I am having fun along the way

THIS is what a successful career is for me!

What does career mean to you? Please write and share!

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Spacewalk for Christer Fuglesang

Christer Fuglesang is the first Swedish austronaut and he's currently circling around the globe far far above us in space on the International Space Station. This is Fuglesangs second trip, the first one being in December 2006.

Back then I was really hooked to the whole thing. I was constantly logged into the NASA webtv-site and could both hear and see live what they were up to. The most interesting part was when Christer Fuglesang went on his spacewalks and I could actually hear his com-radio as he completed his mission (he even threw in some Swedish probably as a treat to us fellow countrymen :)). Who could have believed even ten years ago that this would be possible?

Well, if you missed it in 2006, you will get another chance. Tonight, that is Thursday at 23.13 (Swedish time) Fuglesang will commence his 6 hours and 30 m minute spacewalk. I don't know about you but I will certainly see some of it!

* NASA TV

* Fuglesang on Twitter

* Fuglesang - official website