WHAT IS CAREER?
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), the author, used the concept of "cold war" for the first time and coined the term "stereotype" with its modern psychological meaning.
The word "career" describes the channel through which a person's economic pursuits flow throughout a lifetime. In other words, it is a solid road that can be traveled on. It is based on permanent and sustainability.
Lippmann examined the efforts of immigrants who came to the USA after the First World War to hold on to life, their determined and hard-working lives, and saw the determination and tireless hard work of immigrants who had no choice but to exist.
These talented people, who left their homeland, began to build a life focused on survival, but they felt defeated and unsuccessful in life. This environment brought with it a feeling of directionlessness and purposelessness. In order to direct their psychology, the concept of career in its current sense began to emerge in these periods. According to Lippmann, these people should have built a career. Immigrants could be protected from the feeling of inadequacy, directionlessness and aimlessness by turning their work into a career, even if it was for low wages. Thus Lippmann coined the meaning of the word career as “a path well made.” Creating this path was the cure for the oppression and failure in life.
According to Lippmann; It is a career, a life story. "It is the story of a person's inner development achieved through both skill and struggle. We must deal consciously with our life, design its social organization, develop its tools and establish its method..."
The person who creates his own career determines his goals, the standards of his professional work and non-work life, and determines the standards of his behavior. takes responsibility.
Lippmann says, “To master life means to replace unconscious struggles with a conscious intention.”
The career planned for immigrants, which was thought of as a solution to a phenomenon caused by a person being aimless and unable to get his life together during the war, serves more or less the same function today, a century later. Beyond material and status expectations, we may be holding on to our career journey to eliminate that feeling of drift that creates a devastating effect. Would you want a life without a career if pure work, with its financial rewards, meets the need to enable us to survive and save? Or is the career attractive only because it increases financial returns?
We all try to make life meaningful, try to see something valuable in ourselves, try to truly feel life beyond just existing.
Personally, I value the most importance to the fact that when creating career stories with the power of technical skills and professional knowledge for an existential purpose; our method, style and shape define our identity and that this is done with a healthy balanced mind instead of malicious ambition.
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