Original: The word '' vocation '' comes from the Latin vocare ( verb to call ) ; Richard A. Muller , Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms : Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology ( Grand Rapids , Michigan : Baker Book House Company , 1985 ) , s.v. '' vocatio . ''
Simplified: Vocations meet a psychological or spiritual need for the worker , and the word can also be used for a job at which a person is gifted .