JOB DO OCCUPATION POST/ POSITION CAREER TRADE PROFESSION
job :
Your job is what you do to earn your living: 'You'll never get a job if you don't
have any qualifications.' 'She'd like to change her job but can't find anything better.'
Your job is also the particular type of work that you do: 'John's new job
sounds really interesting.' 'I know she works for the BBC but I'm not sure what
job she does.'
A job may be full-time or pad-time (NOT half-time or half-day): 'All she could
get was a part-time job at a petrol station.'
do (for a living) :
When you want to know about the type of work that someone does, the usual
questions are What do you do? What does she do for a living? etc What
does your father do?' - 'He's a police inspector.'
occupation :
Occupation and job have similar meanings. However, occupation is far less
common than job and is used mainly in formal and official styles: 'Please give
brief details of your employment history and present occupation.' 'People in
manual occupations seem to suffer less from stress.'
POST/ POSITION :
The particular job that you have in a company or organization is your post or
position: 'She's been appointed to the post of deputy principal.' 'He's applied
for the position of sales manager.' Post and position are used mainly in formal
styles and often refer to jobs which have a lot of responsibility.
career :
Your career is your working life, or the series of jobs that you have during
your working life: 'The scandal brought his career in politics to a sudden end.'
'Later on in his career, he became first secretary at the British Embassy in
Washington.'
Your career is also the particular kind of work for which you are trained and
that you intend to do for a long time: 'I wanted to find out more about careers
in publishing.'
trade :
A trade is a type of work in which you do or make things with your hands:
'Most of the men had worked in skilled trades such as carpentry or printing.'
'My grandfather was a bricklayer by trade.' A
profession :
A profession is a type of work such as medicine, teaching, or law which\
requires a high level of training or education: 'Until recently, medicine has been
a male-dominated profession.' 'She entered the teaching profession in 1987.'
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