With a vocation, with assets and partnership if they wish to be with children, and capable of negotiating from strength if they don't.
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.
There is also McEnroe's feeling that his is a vocation with creative limitations: "How many times can you say, 'That guy hit a good forehand'?!" It's just this kind of quirky candor that is appreciated by his audience.
While many photographers — even agnostics — may whisper a prayer before releasing the shutter when faced with capturing the most important moments of their career, very few combine a religious vocation with a photographic one.
He has published several volumes of penetrating essays on music, but at sixty-seven, Brendel announced a new vocation with a wry, Dada-inflected collection of poetry, "One Finger Too Many".
Furthermore, working with children, especially those deprived of their parents' love and care, is generally considered to be a vocation imbued with love of children; however, when asked their motive for working with children, only eight respondents cited being fond of children.
Today, however, ballet is more a profession than a vocation and, with unionization, the days of sometimes brutal open-ended rehearsals are gone.
But out in the field it is a vocation fraught with moral paradox, one in which it is not always possible to distinguish help from harm.
It was there that he became fast friends with Susan Sontag and other young illuminati (including Ed Asner and Zohra Lampert), took a desultory interest in the theatre, studied with Lee Strasberg, and then — with no sense or dream of a vocation — got involved with the Second City improv company.
"Farming has become a vocation for people with nothing else to do," says an aid worker.
BEIJING — If you think documentary filmmaking in the United States is a vocation for masochists with empty bank accounts, consider the challenges Chinese directors face: detention, beatings and censorship.
