callings
Deeply felt professions
Callings is the plural of calling, which means a strong inner impulse toward a particular course of action or profession, especially one felt to be divinely inspired or deeply meaningful: She felt multiple callings—to medicine, to ministry, to motherhood.
The word carries more weight than career or job, suggesting purpose rather than mere employment.
Lifelong occupational pursuit
- professionTrained occupational field
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- tradeExchange of commodities
- craftSkilled manual art
livelihood · work · ministry · mission · purpose · destiny · path · pursuit
Wholehearted loyalty to purpose
- enthusiasmIntense eager enjoyment
- zealIntense driving devotion
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
devotion · drive · ambition · yearning · desire · inspiration · aspiration · longing
Required task or commitment
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- serviceAid or maintenance
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
loyalty · honor · burden · charge · mandate · expectation · function · role
Writ requiring testimony
- court summonsOfficial order demanding appearance
- witness standPlace for giving testimony
- jury dutyRequired courtroom participation
- citationMention of a source
legal notice · appearance · decree · draft notice · conscription · military service · jury selection · court order
career
Lifelong occupational pursuit
- professionTrained occupational field
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- tradeExchange of commodities
craft · livelihood · work · ministry · mission · purpose · destiny · path · pursuit · field
dedication
Wholehearted loyalty to purpose
- enthusiasmIntense eager enjoyment
- zealIntense driving devotion
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
fervor · devotion · drive · ambition · yearning · desire · inspiration · aspiration · longing · intensity
obligation
Required task or commitment
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- serviceAid or maintenance
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
allegiance · loyalty · honor · burden · charge · mandate · expectation · function · role · assignment
subpoena
Writ requiring testimony
- court summonsOfficial order demanding appearance
- witness standPlace for giving testimony
- jury dutyRequired courtroom participation
citation · legal notice · appearance · decree · draft notice · conscription · military service · jury selection · court order · writ
- LDS ChurchJoseph Smith, apostle, Brigham Young, bishop, priesthood
- LDS Culturegeneral conference, sacrament, endowment, sealing, temple marriage
callingsavocations
Pursuits beyond one's profession
hobbies · pastimes · diversions · leisure activities · recreations
callingsaimlessness
Lack of direction
purposelessness · drifting · wandering · directionlessness · emptiness
callingsday jobs
Primary paid employment
jobs · drudgery · grunt work · toil · wage labor
- calling offWithdrawing from commitment
- calling in sickReporting illness to employer
- calling inContacting by telephone
- calling backResponding by phone later
- calling outPublicly confronting behavior
- calling upContacting by telephone