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F without any bait of course you
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didn't a fisherman there's nothing about
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a bare hook to attract on the hook there
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must be some kind of bait an artificial
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fly a worm a minnow or a frog to attract
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the fish and cause him to strike
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without this bait you'd come home at the
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end of the day
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disappointed when you're searching for
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work you're fishing for a
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job what you catch will be determined
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largely by the bait you offer your
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personality training and experience are
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your bait if you have little or no
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training you probably will catch little
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or nothing in the way of a
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job the fisherman uses special baits for
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the game Fish to get the better jobs you
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must also use special bait in the form
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of special
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qualifications there are fewer game jobs
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to be caught the fisherman has the
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ambition to catch the game
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Fish in the same way every person has
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the ambition someday to land the big
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job there is beginners luck in fishing
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and beginners luck count on luck getting
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a job your
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training in choosing your life work
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there are many things to be considered
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first of all you must know yourself your
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strong point your weakness your likes
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and
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dislikes let us consider first your own
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native abilities tests have been
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developed which help you to measure your
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abilities our particular value are those
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called aptitude tests which help you
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measure your abilities in special Fields
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Mechanical Aptitude tests are a sample
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of this type these cannot tell you
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exactly the occupation to choose but
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they give you an idea of the type of
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work you can do best they also help to
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guide you away from some fields in which
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you won't be
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successful each person has the ability
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to do just so much work which is called
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his level of capacity if he tries to do
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more than he is really able he'll be
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unhappy in his work he will also be
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dissatisfied if he knows he could handle
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a better job than the one he has there
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are tests which will help you choose
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work which fits your level of capacity
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best how simple it would be to choose
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your life work if taking tests with the
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only thing you had to do in analyzing
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yourself but they are only the first
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step another step in analyzing yourself
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is the examination of your own
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educational record your grades in
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different subjects back as far can be
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traced if you've gotten this your
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teacher is with you and looking it
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up what does your educational record
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show have your grades been about the
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same all along the line or do they look
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like this up and down like the crest and
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trough of an ocean
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wave in what subjects have your grades
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been up in what subjects have they been
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down why have they been up or down are
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you especially interested in certain
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subjects if you don't like mathematics
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and your grades are low in this subject
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you probably won't be very successful in
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those fields based on
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mathematics why are you interested in
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some subjects and not in others you must
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answer these questions if you really
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wish to get acquainted with
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yourself when you get a job you you will
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be judged in comparison with other
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workers just as in school your work is
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graded in comparison with that of your
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classmates all workers in any group are
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so judged one will be considered the
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best in the group another the poorest
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with the rest arranged in
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between this first today may not be
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first tomorrow unless he keeps on his
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toes and is alert to the changes which
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are constantly taking place in every
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line of
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work therefore you should know what your
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rank in your class is in order that you
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may strive to raise or maintain it do
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you belong in the upper 14 upper one
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half we hope you're not near the
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bottom another very important question
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you must ask yourself concerns your
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character you will probably agree that
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honesty and loyalty are two of the
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strongest points of
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character are you honest with yourself
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are you honest with others are you
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loyal the the next Point concerns your
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interests and accomplishments in what
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are you especially interested what can
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you do well do you like to work with
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ideas or would you rather work with
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things list the things you like and that
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you do well and study them for a
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possible life work we all realize that
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interests change frequently but if the
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interest is strong and is based upon
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some real ability or accomplishment it
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will grow in fact the more skilled you
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become the faster your interest will
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grow and and so it may help you in
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picking your life
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work your social assets are very
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valuable in helping you to know yourself
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do you get along well with the gang or
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do you have frequent fallouts do you
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prefer going with the
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crowd or would you rather spend the day
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alone doing something you like to do do
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you do your best work when working with
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other people or when working alone this
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is important in determining your future
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work for one who likes to be alone would
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be unhappy in a job which required him
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to work as a member of a group and to be
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dependent upon others the research
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worker is generally of the type who
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prefers to work
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alone the successful salesman is largely
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dependent upon his ability to make a
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pleasing impression upon those with whom
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he comes in
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contact determination to succeed is an
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important factor in success when things
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go WR to you say I
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can't if your grades fall below your
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expectations do you say what's the use
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every subject in the school has its part
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in rounding out your education do you
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say I don't see any sense in studying
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something I'll never use how do you know
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you'll never use it when the road ahead
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of you is not entirely clear do you
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continue to do your best there is no
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place in success for a quitter are you a
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quitter your financial assets must
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receive consideration in choosing your
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life work does your choice require long
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and expensive training will you have the
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money will you need considerable money
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for equipment when you have completed
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your training and are ready to start
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work will you be able to finance
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yourself until you have an income from
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your own
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work many people train themselves for
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jobs and then are forced to do something
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else for lack of finances to get
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started every person should have one or
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more Hobbies which he can do well and
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from which he derives pleasure and
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satisfaction a hobby helps you relax
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after A Hard Day's Work
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it may also provide a job to fall back
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upon in case something happens to your
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regular means of earning a living many
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people today are working at things which
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were their Hobbies a few years ago may
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we ask what is your
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hobby what do you expect to get out of
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your life work many would answer money
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money is important for the things that
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it will buy and a certain amount of it
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is therefore necessary as important as
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money however as a return for your work
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is the satisfaction that comes from
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doing an interesting job as well as or
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better than others are doing
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it if you set such satisfaction as your
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goal AFF the financial part to serve
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itself considerable time has been given
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to the problem of knowing yourself it is
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the most difficult problem facing you
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but it must
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Hast now let's turn to some of the
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questions involved in studying
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occupations It is Well to get clear
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clearly in mind that each one of you can
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do several things successfully no
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individual is limited to one occupation
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alone you were at the point where the
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road has many branches any one of the
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several branches will get you to your
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destination but many of them would lead
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you away from your goal how could you
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find the right roads if you wish to get
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the most out of your study of the
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occupations you must follow some
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definite
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plan first you should get a broad view
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of as many occupations as possible one
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way you can do this is by reading there
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are many books and magazines which give
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quite clear word pictures of various
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fields of work but this is not
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enough you should talk to successful
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people in many lines asking them
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questions about their work the training
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required where to get it and the rewards
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of their occupations your school again
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will be glad to assist by arranging such
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conferences for
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you there are many movies dealing with
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occupations and from time to time time
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you're going to see some of these they
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will acquaint you with many types of
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work in various parts of the
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country in making your investigation do
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not limit yourself to your own locality
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but make your survey as broad as
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possible when you have completed a broad
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survey choose those occupations that
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interest you for further study
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investigate the unpleasant side of the
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work as well as the pleasant for every
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type of work has its disagreeable side
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no occupation has ever satisfied the
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worker all the time
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but the pleasant thing should greatly
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outweigh the unpleasant if you're
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seriously considering that particular
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occupation this step will cause you to
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cross some off your list because you
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feel that the disadvantages outweigh the
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advantages make an intensive study of
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the remaining interesting occupations
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you will now want to ask some questions
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concerning
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them what does the worker do is the
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occuper
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crowded what are the starting points and
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lines of
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promotion what are the future prospects
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for earnings and
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advancement what general and special
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education is
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required where can it be
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secured what will this education
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cost what will it cost to get
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established in this
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occupation what are the physical
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requirements is it AP to be detrimental
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to my health would I be happy in this
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work many more questions will occur to
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you as you study the occupations and
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remember you cannot know too much about
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the work into which you decide to
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go while in school you have all about
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you many opportunities to improve
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yourself are you making the most of
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them the modern School consists of many
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departments each contributing its part
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to make possible a broad educational
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background that will be valuable in your
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adult
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life The English Department offers
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courses which will help you to speak and
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write correctly courses in literature
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acquaint you with the world's literary
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masterpieces so you can discover for
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yourself the pleasure to be found in
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reading
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them the social science group provides a
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chance to study the past so that you can
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better understand the conditions of
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today everyone should know more about
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his government in order that he may be a
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more useful
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citizen modern developments and
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transportation and communication have
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brought cities states and nations of the
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world so close together that we are all
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subject to the same influences and no
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matter what we do for a living we have
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many new problems in human relationships
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which must be
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solved a study of the social sciences
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helps us understand these
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problems mathematics gives you training
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in arithmetic and shows you how to use
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it in problems which come up constantly
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in your everyday life
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you must have higher mathematics to
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succeed in some occupations in the study
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of mathematics you develop your ability
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for systematic logical and accurate
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reasoning The Sciences natural and
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physical have an influence on the
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production of everything you eat wear or
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use for this reason the Sciences play a
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very direct part in your life and you
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should learn to understand and
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appreciate
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them physical training aims at a healthy
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body through exercise and planned
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Recreation if you lose your health it is
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difficult and expensive to regain
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it the progress of the human race can be
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traced through its development in music
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and
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art only a few people can become sis
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books in many fields will be found and
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the individual is free to read according
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to his
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interests and offers courses in
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accounting shorthand and typing that
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develop skills through which you may get
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a job in the commercial
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world but even if you never do c work
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you should understand fundamental
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business principles and be able to apply
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them in your everyday
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life the homemaking Department through
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its Cor coures in cooking child care and
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home management trains girls to be good
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Housewives courses in sewing are also
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valuable whether a girl expects to keep
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house or enter the business
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world the development of good buying
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judgment is of highest importance for
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according to economists women do at
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least 75% of the nation's
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buying the industrial arts department
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will help you in four main
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ways first to learn about industrial
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design materials processes and
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products so that you will know more
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about manufacturing and Industry and
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their effect upon your own
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life second to learn how to buy and use
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Industrial Products more
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intelligently third to help you learn
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the fundamental tool
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processes if you never use this skill in
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an actual job it will always come in
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handy and may be fun for you as a hobby
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and fourth you have a chance to try out
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your ability in a number of kinds of
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industrial work which may guide you in
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the choice of one for making your
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living pools have agriculture
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departments which cover the latest
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developments and farm crops animal
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husbandry farm management and other
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important matters which are of value to
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the owner or operator of a
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farm now comes another very important
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part of discussion of your life work
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what is education
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education starts very early and
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continues throughout life from birth to
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death education is the total of all your
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experiences both real and imaginary in
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school and outside of school in fact
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life itself is
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education many adults go to night school
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to acquire additional training to
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improve
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themselves for the more experience or
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education you have in regard to any
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problem the greater your chance of
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solving the problem
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correctly we all know that coordination
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of the mind and body is necessary in
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most of the games we
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play it is just as necessary in most
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jobs to do your life work successfully
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you must at all times have perfect
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coordination the importance of
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coordination is shown in a study of the
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type of work done in over 4,000
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occupation a listed by the Census Bureau
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suppose that these 100 figures stand for
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all the workers in those 4,000
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occupations most of the workers in the
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country out of every hundred only 13
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workers have jobs based entirely on
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mental skills or which require them to
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work with their minds
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alone only 18 out of every hundred have
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jobs based on manual skills in which
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they work mainly with their
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hands all these that are left or 69 out
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of every hundred do work requiring that
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the hand and mind be trained together
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for perfect coordination you will
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probably be one of the 69 for perfect
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coordination is necessary for the
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dentist the typist the industrial worker
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the Homemaker in fact for almost
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everyone just as a building must be
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built on a carefully planned foundation
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so must your life be built on careful
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plans let us see if we can plan the
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foundation of a successful career for
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you as the first block of your
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foundation you must have health without
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health no one can be entirely
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successful the second block is character
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develop your
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character your general education is the
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third block of your foundation keep your
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educational record
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clear the fourth block is citizenship
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are you a good
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citizen next comes your special
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interests in AB are you finding and
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developing ambition is the spark plug of
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the human the force that makes things
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happen do you need a new spark
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plug you may have special abilities and
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ambition but are you willing to work
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hard to succeed there is no shortcut to
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success you should know yourself better
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than anyone else knows you get
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acquainted with yourself the bigger the
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job the more training required are you
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planning to get that
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training on top of this base you can
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place the stone of success confident
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that your foundation is well laid
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examine your foundations and never for
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one moment believe anyone who may try to
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tell you that you can't achieve success
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in this country
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today it's true that competition is Keen
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the standards by which you will be
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measured are high opportunity isn't
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likely to knock at your door you'll have
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to go out and hunt it for yourself but
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the opportunity is there if you're
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prepared to take advantage of
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it there are thousands of occupations
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awaiting the workers who are qualified
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to fill
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them there are jobs in journalism
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monsters turn out thousands of
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newspapers every day reported today has
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to work hard to get the news he has to
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be able to write so people will read his
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copy but so did reporters 50 years
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ago there are jobs in livestock farming
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and dairy farming the farmer long hours
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but so have Farmers for centuries
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past there are jobs in new lines of work
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radio and television millionaires have
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always been few
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number some somewhere in this great land
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there is a chance for you to make a
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living and lead a happy life Americans
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have always made their own opportunities
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it's up to you to make
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yours
