disappointed when you are searching for work you're fishing for a job what you catch will be determined largely by the bit you offer your personality training and experience your bait if you have little or no training you probably will catch little or nothing in the way of a job the fisherman use a special game to get the better jobs you must also use special baits in the form of special qualifications your abilities in special fields mechanical aptitude tests are a sample of this type these cannot tell you exactly the occupation but they give you the idea of the type of work you can do best they also help to guide your way through some dissatisfied if he knows he could handle a better job than the one he hands there are tests which will help you choose work which fits your level of capacity best how simple it would be to choose your life work if taking tests but the only thing you had to do in analyzing yourself but they are only the first step another step in analyzing yourself is the examination of your own educational record your grades in different subjects back as far can be traced if you've gotten if your teacher is have your grades been up in what subjects or they've been down why have they been up or down i was especially interested in certain subjects if you don't like mathematics and your grades are low in their subjects you probably won't be very successful in those fields based on mathematics that are you interested in some subjects and not another you must answer these questions if you really wish to get acquainted with yourself when you get a job you will be judged in comparison with other workers just as in school your work is graded in comparison with that of your classmates all workers in a group are so judged one will be considered the best in the group another  poorest with the rest a range then between listeners today may not be first tomorrow unless he keeps on his toes and is alert to the changes which are constantly taking place in every line of work therefore you should know what your rank in your class is in order that you may strive to raise or maintain do you belong in the upper one for opera one half we hope you are not near the bottom another very important question you must ask yourself concerns your character you would probably agree that honesty and loyalty are two of the strongest points of character are you honest with yourself i honest with others are you loyal the next point concerns your interests and the placements in front of you especially interested in what can you do well do you like to work with ideas or would you rather work with thing list the things you like and that you do well and study them for a possible life work we all realize that interests change frequently but of the interest is strong and is based upon some real ability or accomplishment it will grow in fact the more skilled you become the faster your interest will grow and so it may help you in taking your life with your social assets are very valuable in helping you to know yourself and you get along well with the gang i do you have frequent fallout do you prefer going with the crowd or would you rather spend the day alone doing something you like to do do you do your best work when working with other people or when working alone this is important in determining your future work for one who likes to be alone would be unhappy in a job which required him to work as a member of a group and to be dependent upon others the research worker is generally of the type who prefers to work alone the successful salesman is largely dependent upon his ability to make a pleasing impression upon those with whom he comes in contact determination to succeed is the important factor in success when things go around you say i can't if your grades but or your expectation is do you say what's the use every subject in the school has its part in rounding out your education you saying i don't see any sense in studying something i never use how do you know you're never use it when the road ahead of you is not entirely clear you continue to do your best there is no place in success for a quitter are you a quitter your financial assets must precede consideration in choosing your life work that your choice require long and expensive training when you have the money when you need considerable money for equipment when you have completed your training and are ready to start work will you be able to finance yourself until you have an income from your own work  hard day's work it may also provide a job to fall back upon in case something happens to your regular means of earning a living many people today are working at things which whether hobby is a few years ago may we ask what is your hobby what do you expect to get out of your life work and then you would answer money money is important for the things that it will buy and a certain amount of it is therefore necessary as important as money however as the return of your is the satisfaction that comes from doing an interesting job as well as are better than others are doing if you set such satisfaction as your goal like the finance of my private self considerable time  as been given to the problem of knowing yourself it is the most difficult problem facing you but it must sa now let's turn to some of the questions involved in studying occupation it is worth to get clearly in mind that each one of you can do several things successfully no individual is limited to one occupation alone you are at the point where the road as many branches and one of the several branches will get you to your destination but many of them would lead you away from your goal how could you find the right roads if you wish to get the most out of your study of the occupations you must borrow some definite plan first you should get a broad view of many occupations is possible where you can do this is by reading there are many books and magazines which give quite clear word pictures are various fields of work but this is not enough you should talk to successful people in many lines asking them questions about their work the training required where to get it and the rewards of their occupations your school again will be glad to assist by arranging such conferences for you there are many movies dealing with occupations and from time to time you're going to see some of the they will acquaint you with methods of work in various parts of the country in making your investigation do not limit yourself to your own l but make your survey as broad as possible when you have completed a broad survey to use those occupations that is arrest you for further study investigate the unpleasant side of the work as well as the pleasant for every type of work has its disagreeable side no occupation has ever satisfied the worker all the time but the pleasant things would greatly outweigh the unpleasant if you are seriously considering that particular occupation this step or cars you to cross some of your list because you feel  the disadvantages outweigh the advantages make it intensive study of the remaining interesting occupations you are not allowed to ask them questions concerning what does the worker do if they occupy occasion cost what will it cost to get established in this occupation what are the physical requirements is it i have to be detrimental to my health would i be happy in this work many mark question this will occur to you if you study the occupations and remember you can not know too much about the work in the which you decide to go while in school you have all about you many opportunities to improve yourself are you making the most of them the modern school consists of many departments each contributing its part to make possible a broad educational background that will be valuable in your adult life they enlist apartment arbors courses which will help you to speak and write correctly crosses in literature or acquaint you with the words of literary masterpieces so you can discover for yourself the pleasure to be found in reading them the social science group provides a chance to study the past service you can better understand the conditions of today everyone should know more about his government in order that he may be a more useful  modern developments in transportation and communication have brought cities states and nations of the world so close together that we are all subject to the same influences and no matter what we do for a living we have many new problems in human relationships which must be solved a study of the social sciences helps us understand these problems mathematics gives you training an arithmetic and shows you how to use it in problems which cannot co your everyday life you must have higher mathematics to succeed in some occupations in the study of mathematics you develop your ability for systematic logical and accurate reading the science natural and physical have an influence on the production of everything you eat where are you for others reason the scientists play a very direct part in your life and you should learn to understand and appreciate the physical training aims of a healthy body through exercise and play and recreation if you lose your health it is difficult and expensive t and offers courses in accounting and typing develop skills which you may get a job in the commercial world but even if you never do work you should understand fundamental business principles and be able to apply them in your everyday life the development of good buying judgment is of highest importance according to the economist women do at least seventy five percent of the nation's buying the industrial arts department will help you infer the main ways products more intelligently have a chance to try out your abilities and a number of kinds of industrial work which may guide you in the choice of one for making your living boat have agriculture departments would cover the latest developments in farm crops animal husbandry fire management and other now comes another very important part of discussion of your life work that is education education starts very early and continues throughout life training to improve themselves for their experience or education you have in regard to any problem the greater your chance of solving the problem correctly we all know that coordination of the mind and body is necessary in most of the games we play it is just as necessary in most jobs to do your life work successfully you must at times have perfect karada nation the importance of coordination is shown in a study of the type of work down over thirty thousand doc listed by the census bureau suppose that the hundred figures stand for our workers and those four thousand documentation points to the workers in the country out of every hundred only thirteen workers have jobs based entirely on mental skills  which require them to work with their minds alone only eighteen out of every hundred have jobs based on manual skills in which they work mainly where their hands i believe that are left or sixty nine out of every hundred do work requiring that  hand in mine be trained together for perfect coordination you will probably be one of the sixty nine for the perfect coordination is necessary for the dentist the typist the industrial worker the homemaker in fact for almost everyone just as a building must be built on a carefully planned foundation so must you are right because i'm careful plans let us see if we can plan the foundation of a successful career for you as the first block of your foundation you must have help without help no one can be entirely successful the second block is character develop your character your general education is the third block of your foundation keep your educational record clear rockets citizenship or you are a good citizen next comes your special interests and that's are you finding and developing ambition is the spark plug of the human engine the first that makes things happen you don't need a new spark plug you may have special abilities and ambition but are you willing to work hard to succeed there is no shortcut to success you should know yourself better than anyone else know if you get acquainted with yourself the bigger the job the more training required are you planning to get that training on top of this base you can place the start of success confident that your foundation is well laid examine your foundations and never for one moment believe anyone who may try to tell you that you can't achieve success in this country today it's true that competition is came the standards by which you will be measured a high opportunity isn't likely to knock at your door you'll have to go out and hunted for yourself but the opportunity is there if you're prepared to take advantage of it there are thousands of occupations awaiting the workers who are qualified to fill them there are jobs in journalism of newspapers every day part of the day has to work hard to get the news we have to be able to write so people read is copy but so did reporters fifty years ago there are jobs in rive stock farming industry farming the farmers lab hours but so have farmers for centuries past there are jobs a new line of work radio and television there's a better way spend fewer number somewhere in this great land there is a chance for you to make a living and lead a happy life