Enter the future, with its possibility that many vocations will be unnecessary, and we face more existential questions: how do we find meaning without work?
And even if we can never afford to filter fashion designers' visions into our own lives — even if their rarefied creations become a form of spectator industry, like ballet — their vocation will probably be as enduring as the vocations of doctors, engineers, and chefs.
Going nowhere and proud of it, AC/DC turns arrested development into a vocation, insisting that men will be boys.
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.
If you look ahead ten, 20 years, there will be whole vocations and careers that will be depleted and reduced by technology.
Social care of the future will be a professional vocation in which care workers have the freedom and responsibility to provide appropriate supports to strengthen and complement the capacity of the client and her networks – a rewarding career indeed.
Hundreds of thousands of current bank employees will be employed in different vocations in the next three to five years.
That's why when most people pick a vocation, they don't only want one that will be externally useful.
It will be, first and foremost, by vocation and almost by nature, the affair of the heirs of de Toqueville, Aron, or General de Gaulle.
The Strength of Vocation, a book containing a transcript of the interview, will be published in 10 languages next week.
