I finally registered just to show my full support over this comment. I found the title to be more of a link-bait than anything else. While I agree with the article that joining a startup is not exactly secure work, but what is? Joining a startup does generally have a lucrative personal growth opportunities and within the company itself. So yes, it should be called "career".

Indeed. I think I would indeed call what, for instance, Mark Zuckerberg is doing a "career". It's indeed a classic example of a Hacker News "look at me"-post, where the content seems to be less important than the title. While the quantity of these posts seem to increase, fortunately most post on HN still have real content.

right. Who cares what the page is called.

This was the proper response.

"Career" has become the formal version of "job" anyway. I would be wholly unsurprised if A/B testing showed that applicants for "career" are more experienced on average.

Proper = 1 = Black ________ Improper = 0 = White Presumably?

The world is very gray...

Would love to see the results of that test.

Now, if you want to talk about helping people A/B test their lives & careers, I'm interested :)

We've become so comfortable that we obsess over the title of a web page on some random startups website.

Absolutely incredible.

Thanks for the feedback - though I'd hardly describe myself as comfortable ;)

Quite the opposite actually - the main point here, and perhaps I could do a better job of getting that across, is that the traditional concept of a "career" as a series of deliberate, fairly obvious steps is eroding (if not entirely gone), but the word, and its connotations, remains.

More of a nit-picky linguistic thing perhaps, but psychology & first impressions are important here, and I get suspicious whenever I see what looks like folks labeling something relating to other peoples lives with a loaded term without consideration of its implications.

Stay uncomfortable - R