Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-05-02

Dul LII. socdlOIl D pIlliOSOpIly
sons aptitudes and measure them
against the requirements of all
the fields of endeavor to find his
fields of highest potential success
is in senior high or the first year
of college will have a great deal
of meaning for my Hits for Mrs.
readers.
Most of us when faced with a
child's age-old question, will l
be happy, will l be rich?" cannot
shrug it off with the Italian phi
losophy of the song, "Che Sara,
Sara" what will be, will be-"
We have stayed awake too
many nights worrying about the
answers to those questions to be
quite so philosophical about them.
Our greatest worry of course is
what we, as parents, should do to
insure the right answers.
One thing certain we can't de-
pend on the school system to point
the way to our children's future
success.
School marks give only a small
indication of abilities or possible
careers. And school counselors ca
pable as they are, are too few in
number and haven't the time to
do the job properly for every
student.
DR.. Seaton estimates that he
spends 20 hours testing and ana
lying each person taking his
counseling service. A minimum
cost for professional service of
this kind is 500 an hour.
Multiply this by the 1872 SEN
ior high graduates this year and
the chances of getting such indi-
vidual counseling in the public
school budget will testify.
However don't get discouraged.
The fees at DR.. Seaton'S labora-
tory are based on three per cent
of your annual income.
For example, if you earn $4,000
you are allowed to pay. the $3.50
al the rate of SIS a month over
period of ten months.
Who would bubble at such a
small insurance premium for hap
pineSs and success! But before
you call DR.. Seaton at Poplar 2
$3.50, office hours, Monday-Friday,
6:308:30 pm; Saturday, 900 am.
300 pm, you will want more in
formation on just what it is he
does and the background for it.
II has been estimated that
about 80 per cent of the people in
this country are little off cen.
ter in their vocations. As DR..
Seaton says, they are not COM
pletely unsuccessful but are miss
ing the boat anywhere from lit.
tie bit to all the way.
A 1855 survey showed that job
changing, that is voluntary and
not forced, is costing industry
over six billion dollars annually in
retraining and rehiring time.
This does not include the I'M
measurable cost of the people who
are working at 80 TO so per cent
efficiency because they are in the
wrong job.
Another survey points up the
cost of working at the wrong job
to the people themselves. The diff.
ference in income for a person
with small amount Of education
working in the wrong field and
the man who is trained and work.
ing in the field of his strongest
abilities and drive adds up to
$4,000 in a lifetime.
This thought-provoking figure
is based on research by the Amer.
lean Management Association, the
National Science Foundation and
others.
In his introduction to his mono
graph, Philosophy of Accom-.
plishment,' Or. Seaton says.
There was time when most
men hunted and fished. fought
and made love, ate and slept. Now
adays, most men hunt jobs, fish
for fun, fight off the mortgage
man, get married, pay the groc.
cry bill, and hope they can sleep"
THE shift has been made from
physical danger to abstract dan.
ger In older times skill at arms
was passed from master to APP.
prentice; now skill at finances is