Vocation vs Employment - What's the difference?
vocation | employment |
An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
A use, purpose
* 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
The act of employing
The state of being employed
* 1853 , Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
An activity to which one devotes time
(economics) The number or percentage of people at work
As nouns the difference between vocation and employment
is that vocation is an inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling while employment is a use, purpose.vocation
English
(wikipedia vocation)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* vocationalHypernyms
* job * labour * occupation * workemployment
English
Noun
(wikipedia employment)- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
- ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment , and a promising lad as an office-boy.