The phrase "a real vocation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a genuine calling or profession that someone feels strongly about pursuing.
Example: "After years of searching for fulfillment, she finally found a real vocation in teaching."
Alternatives: "a true calling" or "a genuine profession".
I've thought about leaving many times, but being a care worker is a real vocation to me and to be honest I'd still do it if I won the lottery – albeit less hours.
He told me at the time that it seemed he had nothing left to prove, and he realized that his lack of a real vocation for ballet owed to the fact that he'd been forced into it as a child.
The trouble is that, for so many, scientific research is a real vocation.
Conservatives have a real vocation to develop a society that can use the mechanisms of capitalism without being consumed by them".
These ranged from the relative ease and cost-effectiveness of making visits to multiple patients in one retirement home, to it being professionally ethical to continue to provide care to a long-term patient moving to such an environment; but never has it seemed a real vocation.
"The only reason I like girls," Amis wrote in a letter to Larkin in 1953, "is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a novelist HOOHOO should be important to me..
"The only reason I like girls," Amis wrote in a letter to Larkin in 1953, "is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a novelist HOOHOO should be important to me...
In 1981 she published Un grido lacerante (A Piercing Cry), in which a woman must determine her real vocation as it relates to her life.
The furniture business was just one of many jobs Dad did to try and support us while hanging onto his real vocation as a musician.
My mother's real vocation was running a salon".
"[But Sisulu] helped me to understand that my real vocation was to be a servant of the people".
