The phrase "a vocation for" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is typically used to describe a strong natural aptitude for a profession. For example, "John had a vocation for sales, and quickly rose to the top of the organization."
"Farming has become a vocation for people with nothing else to do," says an aid worker.
The State Department is made up of people who have a vocation for the ministry.
American politics, of course, has never been a vocation for the thin-skinned.
At Hillside, back-stabbing and bickering has sullied what was not long ago a vocation for slackers.
Years ago, he briefly attended a seminary to see if he had a vocation for the ministry.
Höch began her career, in 1916, as an embroidery-pattern designer, a good vocation for a girl at that time, especially one whose parents ended her education at fifteen, so that she could help out at home.
Nursing is a vocation, and for me it was never about the money.
Philosophers, on the other hand, practice a vocation that for most of its existence has sought, as Bertrand Russell once wrote, to "make us know the ends of life, and the elements in life that have value on their own account".
Ms. Hawkins returned to Boston to attend a clerical college but began working with a jazz orchestra by night and soon dropped out to pursue her love of music in New York, much to the chagrin of her family, who thought jazz an inappropriate vocation for a proper young lady.
What was once seen as a menial job has become a lucrative vocation for university graduates and players' chums, almost all of whom are white and lack the feel and instinct of Augusta's black caddies of yesteryear.
