When I spoke with Lawrence H. Summers, the economist, former Treasury secretary and former Harvard president, last year about these jobs possibly vanishing, he insisted that the decline in certain vocations would lead to a rise in jobs in new industries.
Call it heroic hypocrisy — an attitude, long popularly associated with medical practice, that exalts certain vocations to shield them from moral taint.
There is still a need and a desire for publishers as tastemakers, central nodes for activity and networks, and gathering places for certain vocations.
The benandanti and the táltos were initiated at a certain age into their vocation by an older member of the same group, who visited them in a vision.
As for making beer, Mr. Wollner enjoys the fun and creativity of the process, and finds that the vocation itself has a certain cachet.
Back then, the very idea of working at home had a certain stigma, except in a few vocations like freelance writing.
What happens isn't what we might expect: in fact, she reveals something very intimate about herself, a certain talent she has, a certain abandoned vocation, and how it has left her with unexpended reserves of energy and anger that explain how she is to become involved.
It was a joke in our family that my mother and Muriel Spark's great fictional creation, Miss Jean Brodie, shared a certain temperament, as well as a profession that was really a vocation.
Pacifism is often thought to be a professional obligation of certain religious vocations.
Is my science career a job or a vocation?
