ABSTRACT
This chapter describes four angles: gender, family, social class, and social character, which enable one to see another side of occupational devotion in comparison with other orientations toward work. It focuses the devotee occupations through the lens of gender status and gender relations to identify differences in orientation that prevail in this sphere. The chapter explains that proportions of males and females in those occupations are based on tabulated data published in the Statistical Abstract of the United States. It focuses into the ways in which domestic life can get substantially organized around the devotee's work interests. The author looks at the family as context for occupational devotion, for those devotees who have partners, spouses, and perhaps children. The chapter also explains that unionized tradesmen seem to enjoy reasonably high levels of income, so high that they may well spark a certain degree of envy among some small business proprietors and even some junior consultants, counselors, and professionals.
