“A vocation is the backbone of life.” - Friedrich Nietzsche A few weeks ago, I met Vicente. Vicente is an accountant. He arrives every day at 8.30 in the morning (on the dot!), has a coffee at 11 and a light lunch at his desk at 1pm. He almost does not get up from his desk all day. In the days that I worked with him, he only did it to collect some papers, crush others and go for his coffee. When he arrives at the office he checks the news in several online newspapers, analyzes the behavior of some stocks and then turns on his Quickbook to begin registering the previous-day`s operations of at least five companies. He makes some calls, reconciles the bank and then, about 5-ish, “he calls it a day". He takes his worn-out briefcase - those old ones that are barely seen in banks or gangster`s movies-, and turns off the lights of the office, locking each door. Then, with the sun of the afternoon giving full in its back, he walks about 3 blocks up to the first subway station. Wit...