| And maybe you'll have some energy left over to indulge your avocation until it can become your vocation. |
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| Not bad for an incidental photographer who took up photography mostly as a necessity rather than an avocation! |
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| He understood the importance of organized political parties and pursued politics as a career, not simply an avocation. |
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| More than a few antiques dealers start out as indefatigable collectors who make the decision to turn their avocation into a vocation. |
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| Enjoying politics as an avocation is different from caring about the actual political issues. |
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| The bile directed at us in the column shows a desire to hurt me personally and to make my employer suffer for my avocation. |
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| Now, you've studied particularly the writings, the love letters of people who actually write as an avocation. |
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| Even then, farming for them was a hobby, an avocation, a link to a way of life that was slipping away. |
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| That natural pastime became a lifelong avocation that has helped recognize and protect many notable trees in his borne county. |
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| Although birdwatchers may pursue their avocation for as long as they wish during the year, there comes a time when the activity gets stepped up. |
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| The company was founded in 1976 by Jess Briley, by vocation a machinist and oil field engineer, by avocation a competitive skeet shooter. |
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| Since then, the British monarchy, past and present, along with my broader interest in history and genealogy, has become less of an avocation and more of a part-time vocation. |
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| He stammered, and read and wrote a lot of poetry, an avocation he changed to photography for the novel. |
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| These reports can also be expanded to include non-health information such as lifestyle or avocation questionnaires. |
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| His former company controller, gayer, had in the meantime discovered his true avocation. |
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| Certainly, that politics can be a dangerous avocation in Asia, for women as for men. |
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| Her idea was to immerse herself in a topic pugilism that was an unexpected avocation for a psychologist. |
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| An employee in various New York City banks, including that of John Jacob Astor, Halleck wrote only as an avocation. |
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| Until 1868 Japanese flower arrangement was generally a man's avocation, engaged in primarily by Buddhist priests, warriors, and the nobility. |
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| By avocation, he was an accomplished naturalist with special interests in cave beetles and alpine flowers. |
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| You have matched your avocation with your vocation because you could not do otherwise. |
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| If you want to find out more about his vocation as healer, or avocation of poet, click on the links below. |
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| Favorite Album: I am a classical musician by avocation and a classical music nerd. |
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| But mostly I operate a taxi service for my children and pursue my avocation as a spectator and volunteer at their many and varied activities. |
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| The militarist, even imperial avocation of an Alexander Hamilton or a Theodore Roosevelt is countered by the Jeffersonian wariness of war as the sport of tyrants. |
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| Hardie's avocation of preaching put him before crowds of his fellows, helping him to learn the art of public speaking. |
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| At the end of the 17th century, the picture we have of Lewis that of a people pursuing their avocation in peace, but not in plenty. |
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| Storytelling was once a profession in Tuva, as well as an avocation practiced by both men and women living as nomadic herders. |
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| Dr. Ganz has been involved in computers for more than 40 years, and has been able to combine his original avocation as a commercial artist with his knowledge of computer graphics and his work as a dentist. |
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| A dedicated physician by profession, Dr. Shigeru Suganami is probably more known as the President of AMDA, Association of Medical Doctors of Asis, an avocation he has pursued since his younger days. |
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| For aboriginals, hunting is seen neither as a specialized occupation nor as an avocation for the privileged, but as the birthright and heritage of every man and woman. |
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| I very carefully looked at what has happened with tobacco sponsorship in other countries, with a view toward protecting my hobby, my interest, my avocation and the value of my race car. |
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| The purpose of this organization is to foster and develop the avocation of coin collecting among Lions, Lionesses, and Leos and their families, and to strengthen international Lionism through international goodwill. |
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| In one of his poems Robert Frost described a character who found himself to be very lucky because he was able to combine his vocation with his avocation. |
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| Thus far, the English lexicographers had all been men who made dictionaries in their leisure time or as an avocation, but in 1702 appeared a work by the first professional lexicographer, John Kersey the Younger. |
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| Cobbett's avocation for the freedom of the press was severely punished by the British Government. |
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| Bill Maplewood, is a psychiatrist by vocation, a pedophile by avocation. |
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