The phrase "a kind of vocation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a job or profession that someone feels a strong calling or passion for, often implying a deeper purpose beyond just earning a living.
Example: "Teaching is not just a job for her; it's a kind of vocation that fulfills her desire to make a difference in students' lives."
Alternatives: "a type of calling" or "a form of profession".
Noting that these extraordinary individuals suffered from a condition that put them in the same league, psychologically, as the supremely effete George Costanza, Dillon writes romantically, though not inaccurately, "Hypochondria…was a kind of calling, almost a vocation, that structured a life, or the productive portion of a life.
It takes unwavering willpower to attain this kind of spiritual progress, and there is no quick fix or fast track to transcendence. Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000 hours rule, the time investment that one has to put in when striving for mastery of any kind of vocation.
His ill-fated characters are forever being pulled downward by an uncontrollable force, more powerful than love or money, whose charm Bingham wisely never really explicates: it's just the thing, the shadow, a kind of bleak vocation.
I had expected to be taking classes and eventually choosing a major, but I had not previously thought of my studies as a kind of oeuvre, a vocation with such implied coherence and purpose.
But the life he presents to the world is that of an anchorite, pursuing his vocation in a kind of holy cell.
Music is one of the few vocations that offer a kind of sensory and cognitive immersion similar to surgery: the engagement of hand and eye, the challenge of sustained performance, the combination of mind and motion — all of it animated by the full force of the imagination.
They are the witnesses to the episodic tragedy of the nation, and yet mysteriously undeterred in their vocation simply to perform a kind of prehistoric myth.
While confessing that he was not a "divadelnik," a professional "for whom theater is the only imaginable vocation," he also wrote of theater as "a kind of immediate and vivid enactment of the very mystery of human existence".
It also distinguishes Bobby, a man of no specific talent or vocation who merely gets a job and rides it as far as he can, from Allen, whose lifelong artistic calling is itself a kind of love.
