ABSTRACT
Once the internal logic of the map of motivations is understood and its coordinates recognised, the map identities four meanings of work, displayed in a hierarchical order. These concepts come from the literature on meaningful work and describe work as a job, a career, a calling or a higher calling. This chapter shows how work seen as a job is just a way of living, an avenue towards material compensation, but when work is perceived as a career, it becomes a path towards success, achievement, mastery and status. Furthermore, the secular concept of work as a calling gives daily tasks a sense of fulfilment, prosocial benefits and a transcendent purpose. Finally, the spiritual or religious concept of work is a higher calling, whose source has a more transcendent or supernatural divine origin. The understanding of these four meanings provides a compass to give directions for moving through the map of motivations.
