for both career and life vs for either career or life

Both phrases are correct, but they convey slightly different meanings. 'For both career and life' implies that something is applicable to both career and life simultaneously, while 'for either career or life' suggests that something is applicable to one or the other. The choice between the two depends on the intended meaning.

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for both career and life

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that something applies to both career and life at the same time.

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They cannot have both careers and family lives with children.
The training for both careers consists of the following modules:
A career and life of unrealized potential.
You have your whole career and life ahead, a promising one from what I've heard.
I have a career and life here.
In exchange for longer work lives, citizens would have more time for both leisure and skill formation throughout their lives, with positive effects on productivity and life satisfaction.
We need to change attitudes, review the procedure for entry into the European civil service, offer occupational training programmes opening up new horizons for mobility and provide real opportunities for both women and men to pursue a career and have a family.
Officers Keith Rivers and Rudy Hightower, both career prison guards, both married, kids, nothing out of the ordinary.
Our families need a sense of security that the birth of a child will not shatter a career, in other words there needs to be a better balance between work and family life, for both mothers and fathers.
Your career and achievements are unique.
Similar background, career and connections.
He has offered security, a career and a green card.
Puggy had a more satisfying career and lived in a better neighborhood than I did.
Saturn in the tenth house is career and ambition.
I had a promising career and a great fiancé.
Women have a greater likelihood for slower, shorter and/or interrupted careers and on average lower earnings than men.
Maybe I should switch careers and become a jewel thief.
First I will focus on my career and experience.
Forget my career and my reputation.
Just worry about your precious career and leave me alone.

Alternatives:

for both work and personal life
for career and personal life
for both professional and personal life
for both work and life
for both job and personal life

for either career or life

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that something applies to one of the options, career or life, but not necessarily both.

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That our football john wound up with nothing to show - For his career or life?
A career and life of unrealized potential.
Everything after this moment will not only determine your career but life.
You have your whole career and life ahead, a promising one from what I've heard.
I have a career and life here.
I've been looking for a career all my life...
The message coming from the EU should not be either career or motherhood.
This could destroy my career, my whole life.
Life, career, you know.
My career and my whole life depends on it.
If you call wasting your life a career.
It's the never-ending battle of my life: Career versus romance.
My career, my personal life...
The Charter of Fundamental Rights has to be more than a fine we need are concrete implementation measures that will enable people to reconcile a career with family life.
You have single-handedly brought my flatlined career back to life.
In case you've forgotten, I dedicated my career - my entire life - to keeping people like you behind bars.
You cannot throw your career, your life away for this.
At great risk to my career and my life.
We should make every effort to help women to achieve their goals, and also to combine a career with family life.
My career - my entire life hangs in the balance.

Alternatives:

for either work or personal life
for career or personal life
for either professional or personal life
for either work or life
for either job or personal life

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for both career and life vs for either career or life