Most people have jobs.
Some people have a career.
Only a few work with a calling.
Amy Arzesniewski of the Yale School of Management, an expert on workplace relationships, defines them as the following.
A job is just a way to pay the bills.
A career comes when you’re on a path towards increasingly better work.
A calling is when your work is an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.
So based on this, do you have a job, career or calling?
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Love this. I have a calling. The confirming fact to this is that when if I had a job, I could have and would have quit. If I had a career, I could have walked away when I wanted to. I know I have a calling because there was a time when I tried to do all those things and I couldn’t. Jobs are like t-shirts…you can just change them. Careers are like tattoos…like it or not, you’ve got- you can change it but it takes some work. A calling is in your blood- it’s just part of you.
I don’t think it’s as simple as only having one of these.
In my mind, a calling has nothing to do with work. For some people it may be what brings home the bacon but I think it is a narrow focus to presume a calling is just another category of “work.” A calling is something you give yourself to, often times despite it’s lack of financial benefits.
I have a job right now. I feel stuck in it. There’s no upward movement. It’s not in the field I want. BUT that does not mean I cannot at the same time have (and fulfill) a calling.