Reading the 4 sections in Gig I found to be be very enjoyable. The format of the book as transcribed spoken interviews makes it easy to get to know the speakers quite guickly. I immediately, without thinking, began mentally putting together rough faces for each person, no doubt based on people I know with similar vocations or speech patterns. Classifying them by their approach to work seems relatively simple.

Jim's job as Wal-Mart greeter would probably be somewhere between a job and a calling though not really associated with many of the typical connotations of either. It's a calling in that he enjoys it and wants to do well at it, but it's not really a life goal. It's a job in it's generality. Jim could enjoy and be good at a lot of things but this is just kind of where he ended up. A job is usually associated with being a drudge though, and Jim definitely doesn't see it as that.

For William UPS is just a job. It pays the bills and sometimes gives him the opportunity to read porn and swim on the clock, but he hates the work in and of itself. He has no desire to move up in management and he hopes to quit soon. Even when he tries to think of it as a calling, finding "meaning in everything you do in your life" he doesn't care.

As a mom, Elise is working a job and stuck in a career she doesn't really want. She says "Obviously I love my children" but even then she doesn't talk about how her kids make her happy. She just talks about how much other parents' kids suck. She definitely sees herself as a martyr - the work is only a means to an end, having reasonably well raised children.

Katy is living a calling. It could turn into a career but she's not thinking about that right now. She says it's a hard job, but that's only ever after talking about how much she enjoys it. Even when she temporarily returns to what she was originally interested in, she's drawn right back to teaching.