the French word for career
also means quarry.
The English word quarry
also means intended victim.
I have done what Yevtushenko
(whom I have not much read)
recommended in his poem about Galileo*,
and pursued a career (not a quarry)
of not pursuing one.
* Kарьера (Career)
According to my private etymology career stems from
ReplyDeleteLatin carere:
stay away from sth, abstain from, avoid sth.
be without/absent from/devoid of/free from