"pursue a vocation" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about someone who is passionate about their job and wants to pursue a career in that field. For example, "After graduating, Sarah decided to pursue a vocation in teaching."
In Christian's late teens, Dior père adamantly vetoed his son's wish to pursue a vocation in the arts.
We have devoted much of our lives and our freedoms at considerable expense in order to pursue a vocation that we chose to enter in the belief that we can be equipped with the skills to help individuals who are faced with ill health.
The contemplative question of whether to pursue a vocation in academia or industry has changed as career paths become more fluid and lines between sectors begin to blur.
He explains that women wield spiritual power as mothers and wives (260 1), and their spiritual authority would be jeopardized if they were to pursue a vocation outside the family.
He pursues a vocation, medicine, that depends on the observable, measurable, testable, treatable.
He was pursuing a vocation that did not exist in his country, that of a realistic fiction writer in English.
It was at Trinity College, Cambridge, that he first had a profound experience of God, and considered pursuing a vocation when he graduated in 1978.
To observe that women athletes are subjected to criticism and censure simply for pursuing a vocation that celebrates their physical power and puts their bodies in the public eye is to make a point so astoundingly unoriginal that one wants nothing more than for it to stop being true so that it will no longer have to be made.
By 1975 he was pursuing a vocation in radio newscasting, first at Temple University's WRTI and then at commercial enterprises.
As a gentle boy he was expected to pursue a religious vocation.
The CARA report says that the number of parents who approved of having a son or daughter pursue a church vocation declined by 25percentt from 1964 to 1974, but Ms. Gautier was unable to supply further details about that decline.
