I am glad my article spurred some reflection and writing for you!
I appreciated the distinction between those for whom their job has to be vocationally satisfying, and those for whom it is just the means to the end of other activities that are vocationally satisfying. I think there is some middle ground. I think I found myself in the trap of completely identifying my job as professor with my vocation as a theologian, and it seems like you make a similar point later on in the essay. But now I find myself where I want a job that is vocationally satisfying, but that doesn't necessarily have to be my whole vocation. For better or worse, this is partly in response to the precarity you mentioned, but there's a realization that a job might come and go, there's no longer a sense that a job is going to be this lifelong vocation, if that makes sense.
I am glad my article spurred some reflection and writing for you!
I appreciated the distinction between those for whom their job has to be vocationally satisfying, and those for whom it is just the means to the end of other activities that are vocationally satisfying. I think there is some middle ground. I think I found myself in the trap of completely identifying my job as professor with my vocation as a theologian, and it seems like you make a similar point later on in the essay. But now I find myself where I want a job that is vocationally satisfying, but that doesn't necessarily have to be my whole vocation. For better or worse, this is partly in response to the precarity you mentioned, but there's a realization that a job might come and go, there's no longer a sense that a job is going to be this lifelong vocation, if that makes sense.