# career (occupation)

a series of jobs that a person does over time with growth and skill development

- Computed level: L21 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: career

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [jobs](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-jobs.employment), [growth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-growth.development), [skill](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-skill.ability), [development](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-development.growth), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [series](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-series.ordered), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** when a person does a series of jobs that have growth and skill development, the pattern of work over time is a role

**Novel properties:**
- temporal progression of roles
- accumulated skill development
- personal vocational trajectory

## Examples
- Marie Curie advanced from a junior researcher to a Nobel-winning scientist while pioneering radioactivity studies at the Sorbonne. *(science)*
- Lin-Manuel Miranda moved from performing in Off-Broadway shows to creating and starring in the Broadway hit Hamilton. *(arts)*
- Satya Nadella rose from engineer to CEO at Microsoft, shifting the company toward cloud computing and AI integration. *(business)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-career.occupation*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-career.occupation.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*