career vs job

career and job both are nouns.

career and job both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
career	Yes	No	Yes	No
job	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, job is a hypernym of career; that is, job is a word with a broader meaning than career:

career: the particular occupation for which you are trained
job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

Other hypernyms of career include business, line, line of work, occupation.

career (noun)	job (noun)
the particular occupation for which you are trained	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
the general progression of your working or professional life	a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
	a crime (especially a robbery)
	a damaging piece of work
	the responsibility to do something
	the performance of a piece of work
	a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
	an object worked on; a result produced by working
	(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
	a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

career (verb)	job (verb)
move headlong at high speed	invest at a risk
	work occasionally
	profit privately from public office and official business
	arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Difference between career and job

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