Vocationistics: the analysis of work as a life decision.
It ranks how a person should spend their working life. It is not a list of best careers, not a personality quiz, and not a job board.
The word
Vocation comes from the Latin vocare, to call. The word is not vacation, and it has never belonged only to priests. It does not belong only to licensed professions either. A professional plumber, a professional chef and a professional violinist are all using the word correctly: practised mastery, held to a standard, paid for.
What it is not
- Not a job board. There is nothing here to apply to.
- Not a personality instrument. No four letters, no six letters, no verdict.
- Not "follow your passion." Play is one weighted factor among twelve.
- Not a dump of every occupational code. The set is curated and small on purpose.
What a vocationistic question covers
- Play — whether the work absorbs you or merely pays you.
- Specific knowledge — whether the combination of skills is hard to copy.
- Leverage — whether output scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand — whether the work is durable or short.
- Body — what the work costs in physical wear and hours.
- Place — whether you must live in a specific metro to do it.
- Bond — how much of the day is spent on other people.
- Money — the mid-career floor, not the outlier.
- Time to mastery — how long before you are competent.
- Downside — the named risk to body, market, platform or licence.
How the instrument works
Each curated vocation carries public labour and education patterns plus clear qualitative scores. Every factor is normalised into a percentile across the whole set, then combined as a weighted average of the weights you set. Each card shows the factors doing the work. Your weights are encoded in the URL, so a ranking can be sent to another person and argued with.
What it will not do
It will not tell you that you will be happy. It will not replace an apprenticeship, a trial shift, or walking the work with someone who already does it. It will not issue a verdict, because the weights are yours and the arithmetic is only as good as the estimate underneath it.