During WWII he worked in a local branch of Italy's department of revenue where he learned a life-long vocation, accounting.
In "China's Silent Army" Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araújo, both Spanish journalists, claim that China is at the height of its expansion across the world and that its long-term vocation is global.
He had long sensed a vocation as a priest.
At Hillside, back-stabbing and bickering has sullied what was not long ago a vocation for slackers.
"To Be a Banker Is to Be in Heaven" still hangs on the wall of my home office as a reminder of the peace of mind I enjoyed for so long about the vocation.
"I've been searching a long time for a vocation," he said.
Like my own father, a life-long laborer who has found, post-debilitating heart attack, that disability benefits are nearly impossible to access for those who aren't completely incapacitated but still unable to go back to the strenuous manual vocations they long relied on, Dave Johns's Daniel Blake doesn't know how to use the internet.
A veteran of two years of violent street protests, he pulled on his gas mask and charred protective gloves for another long night at his current vocation: throwing tear-gas canisters back at the riot police.
However, long before he discovered his vocation as a poet, Thomas was mired in hack work, a life made bearable by his friendships with the literary men of the time: Joseph Conrad, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, WH Hudson, and the young Arthur Ransome.
Most of Abramović's peers among the pioneers of what might be called "ordealism," to distinguish it from tamer or more cerebral forms of Conceptual and performance art, have long since retired from their harrowing vocation, and some died young.
"Most of us arrive at a sense of self and vocation only after a long journey through alien lands".
