At seventeen, she came to New York, where she modelled, studied fashion and acting, and managed a club while pursuing her primary vocation as a songwriter.
Her father, J. D. Waymon, was a jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur, and her mother, Kate, was a domestic worker whose primary vocation was preaching the Gospel.
On some nights during elver season, he fishes until 2 or 3 a.m. and turns to his primary vocation, a crab processing business, at 4 in the morning.
And, yes, I suppose you could see the numerous sequences set among doctors and nurses in a hospital as some sort of commentary on Chekhov's status as a physician, which he considered his primary vocation.
It is, he says, a distraction from the church's primary vocation to live the dynamic joy and freedom of the gospel in a way that makes it attractive to others.
My primary vocation in this life is a simple one: to be a living witness to a gay life lived in Jesus Christ -- and to carry that witness to the church and to the LGBT community.
It conceals a great modesty that I propose to reveal by mentioning the innumerable examples of great pianists, violinists or conductors who would not be where they are had they not miserably failed their primary vocation, the dream of an entire lifetime shattered by ruthless competition: the position of music critic for a daily newspaper.
Mr. Wolfe's primary vocation is sculpture.
Perhaps inevitably, communications training supplanted advertising as his primary vocation.
"Networking People" is my blanket term to describe anyone whose primary vocation is building their network, which they either directly or indirectly monetize.
