Course vs Career – What’s the difference?

As nouns the difference between course and career is that course is a sequence of events while career is one’s calling in life; a person’s occupation; one’s profession. As verbs the difference between course and career is that course is to run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood) while career is to move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. As an adverb course is (colloquial).