To this end he founded many colleges, all of them strictly controlled and dedicated to poor students with real vocations.

But real vocations are carried beyond the place of work.

The phrase strongly implies that the day job would be quit, if only the real vocation paid a living wage.

This had not been a childish whim, but a real vocation.

"But it's no good my being ordained if I haven't a real vocation, is it?"

His real vocation was protest, shock, experiment and change.

She didn't try to conceal from him her real vocation, for that would have been too silly.

"If you had a real vocation then you wouldn't stop writing."

But it is hard for someone with a real vocation for opera to say no.

She really was a good doctor, with a real vocation.