higher work as responding to the call of God-- in whatever sphere He has called you

From Marvin Olasky's interview with John Beckett in World...

We're still affected by the ancient Greek worldview of higher and lower occupations, with the realm of philosophy on top. Whenever the Greeks looked at the world they put what we would call "work" in the lower sphere. Common occupations were always second-class—inferior to that which was more noble and more highly valued. Terms have changed, but that bifurcation of higher and lower has remained right up to modern times....

The Hebrew view of the world was radically different from that of the Greeks. In the Hebrew view it wasn't a matter of an activity being higher or lower but a question of whether that activity was in harmony with or opposed to God's design. With that view I could serve God teaching school, singing an oratorio, or designing bridges. The only question would be, "Can I do this in a way that aligns with God, or is He opposed to it?"