Career vs. Vocation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Career and Vocation
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Career
The career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work and other aspects of life. There are a number of ways to define career and the term is used in a variety of ways.
Vocation
The particular occupation for which you are trained
Career
An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress
He seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father
Vocation
A vocation (from Latin vocatio 'a call, summons') is an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which they are suited, trained, or qualified. People can be given information about a new occupation through student orientation.
Career
Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way
The coach careered across the road and went through a hedge
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Vocation
A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation
Not all of us have a vocation to be nurses or doctors
Career
A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
Vocation
A regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified.
Career
The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements
An officer with a distinguished career.
A teacher in the midst of a long career.
Vocation
An inclination or aptness for a certain kind of work
A vocation for medicine.
Career
A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
Vocation
(Theology) A calling of an individual by God, especially for a religious career.
Career
Speed
"My hasting days fly on with full career" (John Milton).
Vocation
An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
Career
Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework
Career diplomats.
A career criminal.
Vocation
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
Nursing is a vocation, which many people find horrendous.
Career
To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control
"that lordly car ... How smoothly it ran. In what style they had come careering along the country roads!" (James Joyce).
Vocation
A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous?
Career
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
Vocation
Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
He would think his service greatly rewarded, if he might obtain by that means to live in the sight of his prince, and yet practice his own chosen vocation.
Career
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
Washington's career as a soldier
Vocation
A calling by the will of God.
Career
(archaic) Speed.
Vocation
The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.
Career
A jouster's path during a joust.
Vocation
A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Every member of the same [the Church], in his vocation and ministry.
Career
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
Vocation
A body of people doing the same kind of work
Career
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
Career
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
Career
To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
Career
Synonym of serial
A career criminal
Career
A race course: the ground run over.
To go back again the same career.
Career
A running; full speed; a rapid course.
When a horse is running in his full career.
Career
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.
An impartial view of his whole career.
Career
The flight of a hawk.
Career
To move or run rapidly.
Careering gayly over the curling waves.
Career
The particular occupation for which you are trained
Career
The general progression of your working or professional life;
The general had had a distinguished career
He had a long career in the law
Career
Move headlong at high speed;
The cars careered down the road
The mob careered through the streets
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