ABSTRACT
Those who study career come from a very broad set of disciplines and interests. Indeed careers have been a central interest of people in general, probably since humans emerged as sentient beings. For much if not most of humankind, this interest springs from the existential question: who am I? Particularly in what Max Weber labels more traditional societies – but not only there – it can be boiled down to the more straightforward question: where do I come from? Increasingly, though, it also leads in a different direction, towards reflection on the question: what is my life story? How has what has happened to me and what I have done made me what I am today? And this, in turn, leads to reflection on career.
