Career vs. Vocation
Difference Between Career and Vocation
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified.
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Career➦
A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
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Vocation➦
An inclination or aptness for a certain kind of work
a vocation for medicine.
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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.
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Vocation➦
(Theology) A calling of an individual by God, especially for a religious career.
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Career➦
A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
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Vocation➦
An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
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Career➦
Speed
"My hasting days fly on with full career" (John Milton).
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Vocation➦
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
Nursing is a vocation, which many people find horrendous.
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Career➦
Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework
career diplomats.
a career criminal.
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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?
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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).
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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.
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Career➦
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
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Vocation➦
A calling by the will of God.
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Career➦
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
Washington's career as a soldier
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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.
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Career➦
(archaic) Speed.
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Vocation➦
A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Every member of the same [the Church], in his vocation and ministry.
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A jouster's path during a joust.
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Vocation➦
the particular occupation for which you are trained
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Career➦
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
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Vocation➦
a body of people doing the same kind of work
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Career➦
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
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Career➦
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
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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.
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Career➦
synonym of serial
a career criminal
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Career➦
A race course: the ground run over.
To go back again the same career.
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Career➦
A running; full speed; a rapid course.
When a horse is running in his full career.
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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.
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Career➦
The flight of a hawk.
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Career➦
To move or run rapidly.
Careering gayly over the curling waves.
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Career➦
the particular occupation for which you are trained
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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
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move headlong at high speed;
The cars careered down the road
The mob careered through the streets
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