Career combines naturally with several prepositions depending on meaning. Career in is very common for fields of work, while of career is uncommon outside formal contexts.
Use career in for a field or profession. Use career for someone to describe suitability or opportunity. Of career is uncommon and usually appears in formal noun phrases such as development of a career, not directly as of career.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use in to name the area of work or study.
Use for to show that a career suits someone or is intended for them.
Of usually connects career to another noun, not as a fixed phrase before career itself.
Use as when naming a job title or identity.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
English normally says in a career or in your career, or uses career in plus a field.
✕ He succeeded in career. ✓ He succeeded in his career.Of usually links career to another noun phrase.
✕ the future of career ✓ the future of careersCareer in names a field; career as names a role.
✕ a career as medicine ✓ a career in medicineChoose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Use career in for a field such as science or law. Use career as for a specific role such as teacher or engineer.
Usually not by itself. English normally says in a career, in your career, or career in a field.
Only as part of a larger noun phrase, such as the development of her career.
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