I Am A Vocation Essay

Vocation is a word that brings different feelings into my mind. When I was little I thought of it as something that “happens” to certain people. I thought it was a “called” that people hear one day as a mystical divine signal. For some reason vocation was only applied to certain careers, careers that involved a very specific talent and consequently involved only people who were chosen as it were an omen. Doctors had vocation, priests and nuns, missionaries, artist, intellectuals, scientists, politicians, but not regular people. Also, if you declared publicly that you indeed had a vocation, then automatically makes you good at it, or at least is what I expected. Having a vocation meant that you knew exactly what you wanted to do in life, how and why. I often heard people saying on interviews saying, “I always knew I wanted to sing, or since I was little I knew I wanted to be a circus artist or a ballerina, or an Olympic athlete. Or saying “Don’t worry when you have a vocation you will know, I is something that you really like, something that you are devoted to, or something that you are really good at it”.
That was a hell of an expectation for me, so after thinking what I was really good at, or something that I was really devoted at, I came to the realization that I didn’t have a vocation. I was not especial enough, I did not have any special

They encourage people to achieve careers and goals that are not their own, but a fabrication of values that will foster consumerism and deception. “Being successful” is not just being satisfy with your life, that would be to achievable. Success comes with values attached to it such, money, power, fame, social status, and possessions. At some level I had to let those preconceived ideas go, let go of family, cultural, social, religious and personal