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Hay profesiones para las que hay que tener vocación

English translation: Some professions require a true sense of vocation

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Spanish term or phrase:Hay profesiones para las que hay que tener vocación
English translation:Some professions require a true sense of vocation
Entered by: Kate Major Patience

21:48 Mar 8, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Advertising / Public Relations / Promotional leaflet
Spanish term or phrase: Hay profesiones para las que hay que tener vocación
Hay profesiones para las que hay que tener vocación.
La nuestra, por supuesto, es la traducción.

From a promotional leaflet advertising the translations branch of a company.

I'm having trouble coming up with anything catchy. Any ideas?

International audience.
Thanks very much in advance for your input.
Kate Major Patience
Spain
Local time: 19:29
Some professions require a true sense of vocation
Explanation:
Examples: 30 Dec 2007 ... true vocation then we have to be true to our deepest self. ... Some jobs are accomplished best when there is a sense of vocation. ...
www.ibcfrankfort.com/sermons/123007.pdf - Similares; Some people, notably Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford's Graduate ... direction of the true professions makes a lot of sense. That's ..... emerge partly out of an inward sense of vocation – a convic- ...
www.chicagobooth.edu/parttime/groups/csmg/docs/ItsTime.pdf
Selected response from:

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 19:29
Grading comment
Great! Thanks everyone, some great options here. Cheers. :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +14Some professions require a true sense of vocation
Jenni Lukac (X)
4 +2For some jobs, you must have a calling
Ana Clara Pérgamo
4 +1Some professions are not so much a job as a vocation
Charles Davis
4 +1Some have a higher calling. Ours is translation.
mendezhord
4Vocation is required for some occupations
Daltry Gárate
4For some jobs/professions you have to have a vocation
Lisa McCarthy
4A career can be a calling
David Ronder
1Some people are born ______ / _____ are born, not made
MedTrans&More


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Vocation is required for some occupations


Explanation:
Una opción. Espero te sea de utilidad. Saludos.

Daltry Gárate
Bolivia
Local time: 13:29
Native speaker of: Spanish
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
For some jobs, you must have a calling


Explanation:
Our call is translation... Just a thought, hope you like it.

Ana Clara Pérgamo
Argentina
Local time: 14:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MedTrans&More: or: ...have to/have got to have a calling
11 mins
agree  neilmac: Friendly and "baby bear" informal (it was just right!)
12 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +14
Some professions require a true sense of vocation


Explanation:
Examples: 30 Dec 2007 ... true vocation then we have to be true to our deepest self. ... Some jobs are accomplished best when there is a sense of vocation. ...
www.ibcfrankfort.com/sermons/123007.pdf - Similares; Some people, notably Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford's Graduate ... direction of the true professions makes a lot of sense. That's ..... emerge partly out of an inward sense of vocation – a convic- ...
www.chicagobooth.edu/parttime/groups/csmg/docs/ItsTime.pdf

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 19:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44
Grading comment
Great! Thanks everyone, some great options here. Cheers. :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emma Goldsmith: I like "true sense"
11 mins
  -> Cheers and thanks very much, Emma.
agree  Lorraine Bathurst
40 mins
  -> Cheers and thanks, Lori.
agree  Noni Gilbert Riley
50 mins
  -> Cheers and thanks, Noni.
agree  Catherine Gilsenan: Nice one.
1 hr
  -> Greetings and thanks, Catherine.
agree  Edward Tully: very nice!
1 hr
  -> Cheers and thanks, Edward. If it weren't a vocation, would we be glued to the screen at this hour?
agree  Mirtha Grotewold: Well said!
1 hr
  -> Cheers and thanks, Mirtha.
agree  Henry Hinds
2 hrs
  -> Cheers and thanks, Henry.
agree  Lydia De Jorge
4 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, Lydia.
agree  Maria Mastruzzo
4 hrs
  -> Greetings and thanks, Maria.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
4 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, gallagy.
agree  Frankyrosie
8 hrs
  -> Greetings and thanks, Frankyrosie.
agree  Evans (X)
11 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, Gilla.
agree  neilmac: classic; perfect august tone for the purpose; gravitas sans verbosity;)
12 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil. I thought it suited the noble work we do.
agree  Victoria Frazier
18 hrs
  -> Cheers and thanks, Victoria.
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
Some people are born ______ / _____ are born, not made


Explanation:
another suggestion

MedTrans&More
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Some professions are not so much a job as a vocation


Explanation:
Depends on the tone you want, but this is one possible way to go: relatively informal.

"Working for the RSPB is not so much a job as a vocation for many"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/career_and_jo...

"For long-serving career civil servants, as the more senior ones invariably are, the public service is not so much a job as a vocation: 'chosen for life'"
http://books.google.es/books?id=FHKmP7Mhn_gC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA...

"For me, being a scientist is not so much a job as a vocation, and so if you're not doing something you're enjoying, it's not worth doing".
http://www.cureparalysisnow.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8...

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 19:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  FVS (X)
44 mins
  -> Thanks very much, FVS
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Some have a higher calling. Ours is translation.


Explanation:
Even though it's not a literal translation, it's catchy because it has a divine ring to it.

mendezhord
Canada
Local time: 13:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: Faux snooty, could do the trick;)
12 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
For some jobs/professions you have to have a vocation


Explanation:
#
Food And Drink: Word of mouth - Life & Style - The Independent
29 Aug 1998 ... "**You have to have a vocation**," he explains, "although I was born in Bolivia and studied economics in La Paz, I would probably have been a ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../food-and-drink-word-of-mouth-1174... - Cached
#
Obituary: Valentín Paniagua Corazao | World news | The Guardian
18 Oct 2006 ... "I think you **have to have a vocation**, and a fervent desire, to reach the presidency," he confessed in a rare moment of self-revelation. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/oct/.../guardianobituaries.mai... - Cached

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 19:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 100
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
A career can be a calling


Explanation:
ca- ca-...catchy?

And I hope it sounds like an introductory sentence, an invitation to read on:

Ours, of course, is translation.

And so on.

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Note added at 49 mins (2011-03-08 22:37:19 GMT)
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By ca- ca-, I don't mean caca (!), I mean 'career', 'calling', a catchy repetition of sounds.

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Note added at 59 mins (2011-03-08 22:47:39 GMT)
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and also 'can'

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Note added at 15 hrs (2011-03-09 12:55:12 GMT)
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Reformulation (though I can see where the money's going on this question):

Some careers require a calling

Closer to the meaning, same attempt at 'catchiness'

David Ronder
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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