Why do I do this? Because the money’s good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay? — Armageddon

The difference between a career and a job is that a career has something for you besides the paycheck. There has to be that one thing that makes you say “I can’t believe they’re paying me to do this!”. For some, it’s travel. For others, it’s the ability to work on new things on a regular basis. For the luckiest of us, it involves things going “kaboom” in a fun way every so often.