Assuming that you have your vocation as the third word
in your array element string and ur strings delimited by exactly
one space characters this also works

@MYarray =( 'Jeff Goldblum Actor',
            'Mary Heartman Priest',
            'John Ericsson Mathmetician',
            'Tony Cisneros Chef'
           );
@MYarray = map { join " ",@{$_} } sort { $a->[2] cmp $b->[2] } map{[sp
+lit "\\s",$_]} @MYarray;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\@MYarray),"\n\n";
 
# your output should look like this ..
$VAR1 = [
          'Jeff Goldblum Actor',
          'Tony Cisneros Chef',
          'John Ericsson Mathmetician',
          'Mary Heartman Priest'
        ];
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