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• n  the particular occupation for which you are trained
• n  a body of people doing the same kind of work

• He was doing software engineering for fun but his actual vocation was farming and animal husbandry.
• Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest.
• Literature would be his vocation and his bid for immortality.

• career
• calling
• occupational group

News & Articles

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• New Xulon Title is Road Map for 'Walking Out' Individual Calling
  MAITLAND, Fla., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Quincy D. Brown's new book, The Q.U.E.S.T. for Vocation: A Personal Journey to Discern a Life's Calling ($15.99, paperback, 978-1-62697-333-6; $22.99, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• New Xulon Title is Road Map for 'Walking Out' Individual Calling
  MAITLAND, Fla., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Quincy D. Brown's new book, The Q.U.E.S.T. for Vocation: A Personal Journey to Discern a Life's Calling ($15.99, paperback, 978-1-62697-333-6; $22.99, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Ireland will have no Catholic priests in twenty years predicts a senior cleric
  Catholic priests in Ireland will have almost disappeared within the next two decades, a leading cleric has claimed. Fr Brendan Hoban, a founding member of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) states in his new book that the Church is facing a massive vocation crisis.
  June 11, 2013 - Irish Central

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Advocate.com
  We will do everything we can to weigh the authenticity of their vocation and make every effort to accompany priests along their journey, so that the Lord will protect them and watch over them in troubled situations and amid life's dangers,...
• Henry Kissinger in International Herald Tribune
  If this council is to fulfil its vocation, and take its place as one of the paramount bodies of the United Nations, giving human rights a priority on a par with that accorded to peace and security and to development, its work must be marked by a... Kofi Annan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrYnnQZab6ngDH3ZLdL095P4wzzg Sydney Morning Herald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Darfur-crisis-graver-than-Middle-East/2006/11/29/1164777648905.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG8bL4DylQGAoWm_UpmzsiL0QsoIg Nov 29, 2006 108332 142141 vocation Meeting with Chile's ambassador in September 1975, Kissinger joked that US officials focusing on human rights violations had a vocation for the ministry."