Word: vocationalizing
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No Choice. The NORC sociologists also learned that loneliness, reflected in a desire to marry, was the most important reason that men left the ministry, while problems of faith were relatively unimportant. Another study, based on in-depth interviews with 271 priests by psychologists at Chicago's Loyola University...
Gillette also cited as desirable qualities: "Success in life, distinction in vocation, experience on boards of companies and decision-making activity in general and perhaps - although not necessarily - some fund-raising interest in Harvard."
That ends the comedy but not the picture. Henry studies manuals of toxicology, but never gets around to expunging his bride. Instead, the wastrel learns to endure her and discover the joys of financial management. That leaves Henry with something of a vocation, but it does not leave the audience...
The school year is half over, and once again the young are pursuing their vocation of confounding the old.
Penney grew up in poverty on a farm near Hamilton, Mo. He credited his father with "selecting my vocation" by arranging a job for him in a local dry-goods store. The pay: $2.27 a month. Later, Penney made his way to Wyoming, where the owners of another dry-goods...