Evening journal., 1910-10-28
VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE.

FINDER the auspices of the Chamber of Com
~ merce and the Vocational Bureau confer
ence will soon be held in Boston which may be OF
great interest TO boys and girls about TO start in
lifes real work we'll to their parents who are
much concerned in the future of their children.
The Vocational Bureau of Boston was establish
cd for the purpose of cooperating with business
men, manufacturers, parents, teachers and the
community whole in stimulating young per-
sons 10 consider seriously what trade or profess
sion or business they are best suited for. The
Bureau wants to encourage young people to pre-
pare for their cangs intelligenty and with a
progressive motive
The selection of an occupation is one of the
most important matters that confront a young
person his parents 1t is problem that chiefly
concerns the individual but in making up his
mind no doubt a Vocational Bureau can be of
great assistance The best available information
can be put before boys and girls as they leave
the public schools in a way that will lessen the
tendency of many young persons TO drift from
job to job until they find calling best adapted to
them. This drifting involves considerable waste
of valuable time.
Boston has schools which help the young in this
respect. There is high school of commerce for
boys. school of practical arts trains girls to
become either good housewives or TO earn their
living with effectiveness Another school trains
bows in proficiency in trades. Part of the day
such boys study and the remainder of the time
they work for wages in factories. The Young
Mems Christian Association schools work along
these same lines
The problem of picking out an occupation for
a boy is often very difficult. Some boys when
Young have a definite idea Of what they want TO
do when men Naturally the choice OF a trade
or profession or business life comes to them. They
90 right into it and often do we'll from the start.
Other boys have no definite notion of what they
want TO do, and they try one thing after another
dspleased and discontented, unable to settle down
to the real work of life. Some parents are able
to detect that occupation for which their sons
are most suited and guide them intelligently in
choosing a vocation. Other parents are utterly
lost when they tackle the problem and then the
boys are permitted to shift for themselves.
Then again there is a tendency among many
parents to decry their own occupations. They
think they could have done better in some other
calling and they want their sons to try it. AS
matter of fact these parents probably could not
have done we'll in another occupation.
Many are the farmers who wish their sons to
leave the farm, 60 to the city and make their way
And yet there is no man so independent as the
successful farmer. People are anxious to buy
what he has TO sell and anxious to sell him what
he buys His position is vastly different from
that Of the city man either conducting a busi-
ness for himself or working for wages or salary
for some other man.
The Vocational Schools conference NAV be very
helpful TO the young in selecting an occupation
but the best advice that could be given them would
be to become attentive to business alert and ION
the job open minded to profit by the exper-
fences OF others and not TO be extravagant The
eXtravagant man-that is extravagant in proper
ton TO his income-has shackled himself with the
bonds OF the worst kind of slavery.