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careerism

Noun

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the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity

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I wanted, however, something more from the new middle-class institution than either the decadent romanticism of the sixties or the careerism of the seventies. I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged. Richard Rodriguez

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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