A vocation in our definition implies a calling; therefore, the ability to choose a particular occupation is critical.
Involuntary career choices may be the result of, for example, monetary restrictions, social pressure to choose a certain vocation, or certain forms of discrimination constituting barriers for a person to choose a desired vocation (Lent et al. [2000]).
It concerned a priest struggling to choose between his vocation and the saving of a troubled female poet.
Those who gave more weight to their own vocation were three times more likely to choose psychiatry.
However, she is not only increasingly singular but sui generis within her chosen vocation to the extent that she has also created a reputation as a provocateur.
Whether or not we, the travelers, ultimately pursue careers in diplomacy, we will nevertheless carry a more compassionate and global perspective to whatever vocation we choose.
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 vocation I chose had to be one that a person could enter in midlife without a lot of preparation, because I didn't want to write about that preparation.
"Vocational education should aim to develop an appreciation of the significance of the vocation to the community, and a clear conception of right relations between the members of the chosen vocation, between different vocational groups, between employer and employee, and between producer and consumer.
This is the generation that told their children they could be anything that they wanted to be, and "backstabbing arsehole" will be the vocation they all choose because of that.
