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[kuh-reer-ist]

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noun

a person who follows a career.

a person who pursues a policy or attitude of careerism.

Origin:
1905–10; career + -ist

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careerist (kəˈrɪərɪst)

—n
	a person who values success in his career above all else and seeks to advance it by any possible means

ca'reerism

—n

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"The only serious rival to Pepys is Boswell, but Boswell is a snail without a shell. He trails through life unhoused and exclamatory, whereas Pepys is housed and sotto voce. Boswell is confessional before anything else, whereas, though he too tells all, Pepys is not; he records for the sensual pleasure of record. Boswell adores his damned soul to the point of tears and is in shameless, ramshackle pursuit of father-figures who will offer salvation. Unlike Pepys, he has above all a conceit of his own peculiar genius. Pepys has no notion of genius. Where Pepys is an eager careerist, struck by the wonder of it, Boswell has no career; he has only a carousel, and it is odd that the careerist has a more genuine sense of pleasure than the Calvinist libertine."

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