Word: vocationalizing
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Saved, but not restored. Genelle's life hasn't returned to anything approaching normality. She hasn't resumed her duties at the Port Authority--and she won't, she says. She wants to become a social worker or pursue some other helping vocation. Returning to the Port Authority would remind...
For Berry, who claims not only to have been bartending since the age of 12, but also to have been conceived behind a bar, his life vocation has as much to do with socializing with the customers as with mixing drinks and tapping beers.
Robert Frost once wrote, “My object in living is to unite/ My avocation and my vocation.”
“The ideal is to have your vocation and your avocation,” she says. “In many ways, that’s what’s happened in my life.”
But other men came to the priesthood because they felt called to it. "God gave me this vocation as a very little boy, before I knew I was gay," says McNichols. "It didn't seem to matter to God." But growing up gay only made him a better priest, he...