professional life

One's working existence

Professional life encompasses a person's career, work activities, and workplace relationships—everything related to earning a living or building expertise in a field.

The term typically contrasts with personal or private life: She keeps her professional life separate from her family.

It includes not just the job itself but reputation, advancement, and conduct within one's occupation: The scandal ended his professional life.

Opposites
work vs. personal domain

professional lifepersonal life

One's non-professional existence

private life · home life · family life · domestic life · leisure time

structured obligation vs. unstructured freedom

professional lifeleisure

Free time for relaxation

leisure time · free time · downtime · recreation · play

career engagement vs. career absence

professional liferetirement

Leaving the workforce permanently

unemployment · joblessness · career break · sabbatical · early retirement

Family

professional, profession, professions, professionals, professionally, professionalism, profess, professed, professing

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G