Job: work done for money, to pay the mortgage, to keep the wife and kids happy.
Vocation: what sustains you, done for the love of it, the pure craft of the doing.
Job: external, coercive, necessary only for lucre, status, accumulation, dross.
Vocation: internal, freely chosen, necessary for your heart, creative, affirming, alive.
The singer who sings freely and from the soul creates beauty and informs the world; the drudge who labors for sustenance and stuff murders time and deadens reality.
What we do paints the portrait of who we are.
Real work brightens being; useless work darkens the heart.