All 8 Uses of

vocation
in
Jane Eyre

If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced "I cannot think of leaving you, sir, at so late an hour, in this solitary lane, till I see you are fit to mount your horse."†
p. 134.7

vocation = a particular type of job

"The vocation will fit you to a hair," I thought: "much good may it do you!"†
p. 279.4 *

Mr. St. John had said nothing to me yet about the employment he had promised to obtain for me; yet it became urgent that I should have a vocation of some kind.†
p. 405.9

I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service — I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.†
p. 409.9

As for me, I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.†
p. 460.2