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Sr. Pat Froning
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Date Posted: 09:19:08 04/04/02 Thu
Here's another one:
From: Gfapierce@aol.com [mailto:Gfapierce@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:39 AM
To: Gfapierce@aol.com
Subject: Is "Vocation" a Useful Word?
Faith and Work in Cyberspace-April 1, 2002
Cyberspacer Tom Bausch sent in the following quote from a March 14, 2002 Wall Street Journal front page article focusing on an auditor who, after 25 years with the same firm, was fired apparently for not attracting enough new business. To quote the final paragraph in the WSJ article:
In 1999, he says, his 'revenue team' fell 'woefully short' of its goal. His salary was cut, and in February 2000, he was dismissed. "I liked my clients, I liked what I did. I was a big shot in the local community - a seasoned partner at a top accounting firm," he says. "The person who fired me, asked me, 'You got any opportunities? Have you been looking around?'" I said, "Of course not. Why should I have? I looked at this as a vocation."
Here is Bausch's question to our group: "Does seeing one's work as vocation help or hinder meeting expectations of superiors, even for the so-called professions? What has been your experience?"
How about it, Cyberspacers? Is the word or concept of "vocation" more of a help or more of a hindrance in practicing a spirituality of work, especially in the secular arena?
Greg Pierce
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