job vs career

job and career both are nouns.

job and career both are verbs.

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

As nouns, career is a hyponym of job; that is, career is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than job:

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

Other hyponyms of job include confectionery, sport, farming, land, biz, game, calling, vocation, employment, work, appointment, berth, office, place, position, post, situation, salt mine, treadmill, craft, trade, profession, medium, metier, accountancy, accounting, photography, catering.

job (noun)	career (noun)
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money	the particular occupation for which you are trained
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee	the general progression of your working or professional life
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

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

Difference between job and career

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