Word: vocationalizing
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To have a vocation means to have patience. "It took me 15 years to build a bear," says George of one of his arboreal sculptures. "I won't live long enough to build another bear like that one." Like carpenters and shoemakers, George represents a dying breed of quiet artisanship...
Considering all his childhood idols--cricket players, Russian tank drivers, school teachers--it's difficult to imagine why the grown-up Coetzee decided to write for a living. We keep expecting some pivotal moment in Boyhood that never arrives, an epiphany in which the adolescent boy realizes he is destined...
What vocation is more ancient or innately human than the art of bringing people together to laugh, talk and get to know each other? Yes, doctors and lawyers and others with such "real life" jobs have it cut out for themselves, but how do their professional dilemmas compare to those...
The woman who became Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910, the daughter of a prosperous, ethnic Albanian business contractor in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia. When she was seven, her father Nicholas died during what may have been a Balkan ethnic brawl. She would...
"There are more students taking science courses as semi-captives, and not seeing science as a vocation," he says.