"incipient career" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the beginning of someone's career or profession, or the entering of a new profession. For example, "After years of working a corporate job, he decided to pursue an incipient career as a freelance photographer."
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa's featurette "Jerry and Me" (Sunday at 4 P.M). is a personal memoir, in which she traces her affinity for Jerry Lewis and his movies from her childhood and incipient filmmaking career in Iran through her emigration to the United States and her career and family life here.
McIntyre quickly decided to use his MA experience to steer his incipient radio career towards entertainment.
F. D. Reeve, who gave up an incipient acting career in his early 20s because he feared that immersing himself in dramatic characters might erode his own poetic voice, and who went on to write 10 volumes of highly regarded poetry, died on June 28 in Lebanon, N.H.
When it comes to arms, the I.R.A. has no qualms about dashing the incipient political careers of the Sinn Fein leaders who appeared to be relishing their new roles as government ministers.
Crippled by writer's block, and perhaps hamstrung by the incipient insanity that would plague her career, Plath bakes enormous quantities of cakes.
And while many of the freshmen have pledged to do what they believe is right no matter the consequences for their careers, their decisions are playing out against the backdrop of an incipient Republican primary in which they face the prospect of challenges from the right if they agree to a deal.
The doctors diagnosed incipient schizophrenia.
That highlights an incipient trend.
They failed to consider incipient heart disease.
Were the sandbags for incipient flooding?
