"Career"!!!
Used to be a grass roots love of the music when I came in - careers were as rare as rocking-horse shit and payed bookings a perk.

I think you're the same generation as

The Corries
The Spinners
The Dubliners
The Clancy Brothers
The Chieftains
Hamish Imlach
Martin Carthy
Jean Redpath
Archie Fisher
Peter Bellamy
Ed Miller
John Kirkpatrick
Richard Thompson
Sandy Denny

all of whom had something approximating a career, no?