aftercareer

aftercareer

English

Etymology

after- +‎ career

Noun

aftercareer (plural aftercareers)

1. (dated) The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career.
   • 1808, Walter Scott, “Life of John Dryden” in The Works of John Dryden, London: William Miller, Volume 1, p. 38,

     In a youth entering life under the protection of such relations, who could have anticipated the future dramatist and poet laureat […] ? In his after career, his early connections with the puritans, and the principles of his kinsmen during the civil wars and usurpation, were often made subjects of reproach […]

   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, Chapter 18, p. 80,

     Nothing more happened to ruffle Mr Pontifex, so we had a delightful evening, which has often recurred to me while watching the after career of my godson.

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 2, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520, page 37:

     […] it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them—disaster momentous indeed to their expedition, but simply overwhelming in its effect on the after-career of Toad.

   • 1987, Fredson Bowers, “The Publication of Renaissance Plays” in Fredson Bowers (ed.), Elizabethan Dramatists, Detroit: Gale Research Company, p. 414,

     […] since the author himself seldom sold the copy to the bookseller, he had no personal or financial interest in his play’s aftercareer except on the stage, the more especially since he did not believe that in a play he was writing in a medium that would bring him literary fame.

See also

• afterlife