However much you love your kids, being a stay-at-home parent is a job; it does not have to be a vocation.
"Children have to share in their parents' destiny to some extent, like it or not," is part of Cusk's mitigation – though her deeper justification seems to be a vocation for fearless truth-telling, come what may.
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.
We understand our role as scholars and teachers to be a vocation rooted in the Church and so we seek to place the fruits of our training at the service of the Church, as well as the academy and the world.
[ 22] "A majority [of nurses surveyed] (64.5%) believe nursing to be a vocation".
(KI 19, retired nursing manager, Gauteng) I think the number one thing [problem] is the issue of the values in nursing, which perhaps may be different for different people but generally nursing was perceived to be a vocation for many of us – not the only choice of career.
