Vocation
noun
A person's main job or career, especially when it is also something they enjoy or feel strongly about.
His vocation is teaching, he really loves to share knowledge with his students.
Often appears as...
- find one's vocation
- vocation in life
noun
A strong desire to spend your life doing a certain kind of work (such as religious work).
After years of soul-searching, he realized he had a vocation for priesthood.
Often appears as...
- religious vocation
- feel a vocation
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Formal
noun
The work that a person does or should be doing.
It's his vocation to make sure the trains run on time.
Often appears as...
- primary vocation
- vocational duty
noun
A person's main job or career, especially when it is also something they enjoy or feel strongly about.
His vocation is teaching, he really loves to share knowledge with his students.
Often appears as...
- find one's vocation
- vocation in life
noun
A strong desire to spend your life doing a certain kind of work (such as religious work).
After years of soul-searching, he realized he had a vocation for priesthood.
Often appears as...
- religious vocation
- feel a vocation
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The work that a person does or should be doing.
It's his vocation to make sure the trains run on time.
Often appears as...
- primary vocation
- vocational duty
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Fulfillment
Vocation implies a job that gives satisfaction and a sense of purpose, not just income.
Even as a renowned singer, she considered teaching music her true vocation.
Pro Tip 2/3Lifelong Commitment
It often describes a career that someone is dedicated to for a long time.
She has devoted her life to medicine, a vocation she finds incredibly rewarding.
Pro Tip 3/3Innate Passion
Emphasizes a job that aligns with one's natural talents or interests.
From a young age, he showed a vocation for engineering through his love for building.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Fulfillment
Vocation implies a job that gives satisfaction and a sense of purpose, not just income.
Even as a renowned singer, she considered teaching music her true vocation.
Pro Tip 2/3Lifelong Commitment
It often describes a career that someone is dedicated to for a long time.
She has devoted her life to medicine, a vocation she finds incredibly rewarding.
Pro Tip 3/3Innate Passion
Emphasizes a job that aligns with one's natural talents or interests.
From a young age, he showed a vocation for engineering through his love for building.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Fulfillment
Vocation implies a job that gives satisfaction and a sense of purpose, not just income.
Even as a renowned singer, she considered teaching music her true vocation.
Pro Tip 2/3Lifelong Commitment
It often describes a career that someone is dedicated to for a long time.
She has devoted her life to medicine, a vocation she finds incredibly rewarding.
Pro Tip 3/3Innate Passion
Emphasizes a job that aligns with one's natural talents or interests.
From a young age, he showed a vocation for engineering through his love for building.
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Success, failure and the...
just quitting the game and moving to the country to raise corgis. But if I had done that, if I had given up writing, I would have lost my beloved vocation, so I knew that the task was that I had to find some way to gin up the inspiration to write the next book regardless of its inevitable negative outcome.
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Proof: James Balog on...
everybody and I think it's a tragedy of our time that it's been politicized to do this work it takes a ridiculous amount of determination you have to have perseverance beyond perseverance this is not a business this is a passion of vocation of calling this is something you have to do and you feel
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Mark Bezos: A life...
the department received a letter from the homeowner thanking us for the valiant effort displayed in saving her home. The act of kindness she noted above all someone had even gotten her a pair of shoes. In both my vocation at Robin Hood and my avocation as a volunteer firefighter,
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My year of living...
This became very, very clear, early on. Because if you do, then you end up acting like a crazy person, and stoning adulterers, or -- here's another example. Well, that's another. I did spend some time shepherding. It's a very relaxing vocation. I recommend it.
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James Kunstler: How bad...
Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens. One final thing -- I've been very disturbed about this for years, but I think it's particularly important for this audience.
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka:...
and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. But well before my imagination was my vocation, my imagination saved my life. When I was a kid, I loved to draw,
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The lies our culture...
to be totally given ourselves over to something and to find that level of vocation. And when you are around these weavers, they see other people at twice the size as normal people. They see deeper into them.
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Nigerians Fight to...
i don't see the trader as a bad person at that level it is a means to an end they are trying to survive hunting and bushmeat selling is their family vocation nobody has told them otherwise
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The United Genomes...
positive patients live in sub-saharan Africa but when developed medicines for AIDS or any disease we first test them in American vocations the problem with
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Theaster Gates: How to...
I'm a potter, which seems like a fairly humble vocation.
Video examples
Success, failure and the...
just quitting the game and moving to the country to raise corgis. But if I had done that, if I had given up writing, I would have lost my beloved vocation, so I knew that the task was that I had to find some way to gin up the inspiration to write the next book regardless of its inevitable negative outcome.
Video examples
Proof: James Balog on...
everybody and I think it's a tragedy of our time that it's been politicized to do this work it takes a ridiculous amount of determination you have to have perseverance beyond perseverance this is not a business this is a passion of vocation of calling this is something you have to do and you feel
Video examples
Mark Bezos: A life...
the department received a letter from the homeowner thanking us for the valiant effort displayed in saving her home. The act of kindness she noted above all someone had even gotten her a pair of shoes. In both my vocation at Robin Hood and my avocation as a volunteer firefighter,
Video examples
My year of living...
This became very, very clear, early on. Because if you do, then you end up acting like a crazy person, and stoning adulterers, or -- here's another example. Well, that's another. I did spend some time shepherding. It's a very relaxing vocation. I recommend it.
Video examples
James Kunstler: How bad...
Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens. One final thing -- I've been very disturbed about this for years, but I think it's particularly important for this audience.
Video examples
Jarrett J. Krosoczka:...
and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. But well before my imagination was my vocation, my imagination saved my life. When I was a kid, I loved to draw,
Video examples
The lies our culture...
to be totally given ourselves over to something and to find that level of vocation. And when you are around these weavers, they see other people at twice the size as normal people. They see deeper into them.
Video examples
Nigerians Fight to...
i don't see the trader as a bad person at that level it is a means to an end they are trying to survive hunting and bushmeat selling is their family vocation nobody has told them otherwise
Video examples
The United Genomes...
positive patients live in sub-saharan Africa but when developed medicines for AIDS or any disease we first test them in American vocations the problem with
Video examples
Theaster Gates: How to...
I'm a potter, which seems like a fairly humble vocation.
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Rhys Darby
New Zealander Comedian
I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.
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Quincy Jones
American Musician
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Kevin Cramer
American Politician
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
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Scott Weiss
American Businessman
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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Nita Ambani
Indian Businesswoman
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
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Henri Nouwen
Dutch Clergyman
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
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James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.
Quote examples
Rhys Darby
New Zealander Comedian
I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.
Quote examples
Quincy Jones
American Musician
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Quote examples
Kevin Cramer
American Politician
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.
Quote examples
Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Quote examples
Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Quote examples
Scott Weiss
American Businessman
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
Quote examples
Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
Quote examples
Nita Ambani
Indian Businesswoman
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
Quote examples
Henri Nouwen
Dutch Clergyman
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
Quote examples
James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.
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