career start
First job territory
Career start is the beginning of someone's professional working life or their entry into a particular field.
It marks the transition from education or training to employment: She got her career start in journalism at a small-town newspaper.
The phrase often appears when tracing someone's professional history back to its origins: His career start was humble—washing dishes at a diner.
- beginningInitial stage of something
- launchSet into motion
- debutFirst public appearance
- first dayInitial day of something
- entry-levelRequiring minimal prior experience
first job · ground floor · intern · trial period · rookie · graduate · ambition · résumé · interview · hustle · job hunt · cover letter · fresh · green · opportunity · climb · corporate ladder · aspiration
- employmentjob, jobs, interview, interviews, job interview
- twentiestwenties, young adult, early adulthood, emerging adulthood, college grad
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
career startretirement
Leaving the workforce permanently
career end · twilight years · swan song · golden years · final position
career startburnout
Chronic occupational depletion
career peak · forced retirement · early retirement · layoff · winding down
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