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\u201cIt\u2019s always hard when your parents have one vocation for you and you find that you have another.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure that the shuttle van driver who took me back to the Grand Rapids airport last summer had no idea how perfectly his comment fit with everything I had been reading, writing, and talking about that week.<\/p>\n

I called it \u201cvocation summer camp\u201d in this post<\/a> last year, the week spent with a team<\/a> of colleagues from colleges and universities around the country to begin our collaboration on new resources for those of us who work in higher education to accompany students as they discern their vocations, their paths to fulfilling and meaningful lives.\u00a0 The Council of Independent Colleges<\/em> has invited a growing network of institutions to this conversation through the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education<\/a>, and I\u2019ve been a part of it since its inception in 2009.<\/p>\n

The van driver in Michigan was a kind, chatty, retired fellow who found a way to tell me his life story in under an hour.\u00a0 His parents and grandparents had been farmers and he had been expected to continue that tradition, when other education and employment options emerged for him and he found a path that took him into uncharted professional territory.\u00a0 He was grateful for it, but all these decades later, remembered that it wasn\u2019t easy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a familiar narrative to many of us who work with undergraduate students, especially those who are, like many of my students, the first in their family to go to college.\u00a0 It\u2019s work that is important, challenging, and ultimately transforming.<\/p>\n

This weekend, I\u2019m heading to what I probably should call \u201cvocation winter camp\u201d to complement last year\u2019s post.\u00a0 Most of our group lives and works in places subjected to the polar vortex and other winter indignities these past months, and so we will gather for a few days of work at Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center<\/a>.\u00a0 The intense work will perhaps be manageable in a place actually in Carefree, Arizona (carefree \u2026 come on!) whose mission is itself focused on guests renewing their own callings in the world.<\/p>\n

Check out their video, and consider your own retreat somewhere to reflect on your callings and the paths that led you to your work in the world:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HQN78OQuRoc<\/a>\n

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