In “Jobs, Careers, and Callings,” a famous study by Yale professor Amy Wrzesniewski and others, people were asked if they defined their work as a job, career, or a calling. People who defined their work as a calling saw their work as “inseparable from their life” and worked, “not for financial gain or career advancement, but instead for the fulfillment that doing the work brings to the individual.” The researchers boldly concluded that if people could find work they saw as a calling it would improve their “life, health, and job satisfaction.”32
