career vs workstead

career

noun
  • One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession. 

  • General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it. 

  • A jouster's path during a joust. 

  • The flight of a hawk. 

verb
  • To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. 

adj
  • Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”) 

workstead

noun
  • A place of employment; workplace. 

  • Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation. 

  • A laboratory. 

How often have the words career and workstead occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )