Work: Job, Career, or Vocation?

How should we think about our work? At the “microscopic” level, it is a series of actions ordered to a particular end. This definition applies to the simple tasks we perform during our workday. But these tasks add up to a project and a series of projects can constitute a job. We think of a job primarily as a means of making money. When a job is a career, we consider it as a more permanent and more meaningful mode of employment. But when our career becomes a means of fulfilling our vocation, it becomes a way to serve God.