The phrase "a career of exploring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's professional journey or focus on exploration, whether in a literal or metaphorical sense.
Example: "She dedicated her life to a career of exploring the depths of the ocean and uncovering its mysteries."
Alternatives: "a career in exploration" or "a profession of discovery."
Photographer Phillip Buehler, who has made a career of exploring 20th-century ruins, first climbed into Greystone through a window.
Ms. Darden has made a career of exploring the links between family and food, especially as they existed among Southern blacks in the first three-quarters of the 20th century.
Instead, she made a career of exploring the margins: furtive trips to evangelical tent meetings when she was a teen-ager, a stint as a Communist at the University of Kentucky, a mariage blanc to a gay man in New York, forays into the world of Negro jazz music, and marriage to a manic-depressive poet.
It's a concept that would have appealed to Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Polish filmmaker who died in 1996 after a career of exploring similar themes of fate and chance in films like "The Double Life of Véronique" (1991) and "Blind Chance" (1981).
The director Eric Rohmer, who has made a long career of exploring the nuances of regional France, said in an interview last summer that he did not much believe in the idea of a European film.
The British playwright Harold Pinter has made a career out of exploring the power of the pause.
But the Citizens Committee has flourished, through Mr. Elliott's sometimes stormy eight-year tenure as dean of Columbia University's journalism school, through his hatching and leading a nationwide march on Washington in 1992 to demand more federal money for cities and various other episodes in a career spent exploring the boundary of journalism and activism.
My father, born in 1911, was an intellectual of sorts who found baseball, indeed all sport, beneath him; he would have sneered at the intellectuals of today who make careers out of exploring the game's Inner Meaning and to quote one such–"spiritual transcendence".
But, like the great modern architect, Le Corbusier, who Graves emulated early on in his career, art became a way of exploring ideas and expressing the vision that drove his design work.
The guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly has made a career exploring the interstices of jazz, funk and blues with asymmetrical riffs and sharp-angled phrases.
He is about halfway to a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and would like to pursue a career exploring the use of alternative fuels in motorsports.
