"distinctive career" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a unique, notable, or noteworthy career that sets someone apart from others. Example: She has had a long and distinctive career as a successful entrepreneur, creating multiple successful businesses and receiving numerous industry awards and recognition.
Schnellenberger played for and coached with Bryant before starting his distinctive career, and he speaks in the same deep, assertive tone that Bryant did.
"It's unfortunate that I've had to relieve an officer who's had an otherwise distinctive career spanning 35 years of commendable service". The vice-commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, Major General Jack Weinstein, will temporarily replace Carey.
His novella "So Long, See You Tomorrow 198080) is the triumphant culmination of this approach, winning Maxwell — whose distinctive career had been unduly shy of awards — the Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for the best novel of the previous five years.
He infused pop music with soul and jazz and helped win a number of Grammy Awards for Atlantic, then built a distinctive career with other companies, some of which he founded, by repackaging older releases and unearthing unknown recordings from private collections and elsewhere.
Although his dancing shoes haven't received much of a workout lately, those words essentially hold true to this day, even as younger actors like Liev Schreiber and Philip Seymour Hoffman have followed Mr. Kline's distinctive career path in retaining an allegiance to theater as their film profiles grow.
It was a distinctive career experience for me as a photographer, covering my hometown on fire.
Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Giuliani are indeed both iconoclastic Republicans with distinctive careers and credentials, running as outsiders against familiar figures of the Democratic establishment.
But the finale really is Carousel, in which these two people known so well for their distinctive, career-making voices remind us what exceptional actors they are.
Antonioni, made speechless by a stroke yet still working (his new "Beyond the Clouds" opens the film festival), is now at the sunset of one of film history's most distinctive careers.
An Oscar for Murphy would be something to honour a terrific comic who created a distinctive Hollywood career for himself.
To establish that source's credentials, the cable's author lists his family connections (Iran), his place of business (Baku), his education (British), and his distinctive sporting career.
