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Should you take a Homographic Approach to your Career Planning?

Written by: Ben Nash

Article Overview: A Homo what?? Homographs are words that have two distinct meanings. For example: “It’s probably not appropriate if we appropriate their results” or “the august citizen will take office in August” or in the case of career planning, “his career ended after his car was seen to career into the telephone pole.”

Should you take a Homographic Approach to your Career Planning?

A Homo what?? Homographs are words that have two distinct meanings. For example: “It’s probably not appropriate if we appropriate their results” or “the august citizen will take office in August” or in the case of career planning, “his career ended after his car was seen to career into the telephone pole.” To verify the homographic (double meaning) nature of “career,” I looked it up in the dictionary and found the following:

“Career: One’s calling in life; a person’s occupation; one’s profession; To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.”

The dictionary also differentiated between one’s occupation and one’s career. Occupation, it said, is “the specific activity with a market value that an individual continually pursues for the purpose of obtaining a steady flow of income”. Career is “the sequence of occupations, jobs, and positions in the life of an individual.”

Research on career patterns published in 2001 followed the occupations and career stability of 170 people over 25 years and found that higher career stability was linked to lower midlife career and job satisfaction.

Putting all this together it seems that if you move rapidly, straight ahead in your career, in an uncontrolled way with a series of occupations you will have higher midlife career satisfaction. But please don’t take the word of an old homographer about this.

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Article Tags: career advice, career development, career planning, homographer, homographic



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