单选题 Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an 31 should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, 32 , most people make several job choices during their working lives, 33 because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve 34 position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should 35 enter into a broad flexible training program that will 36 them for a field of work rather than for a single 37 .
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans 38 benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing 39 about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss 40 . Some drift from job to job. Others 41 to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
One common mistake is choosing an occupation for 42 real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field, 43 both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal 44 . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is 45 good reason for choosing it as life"s work. 46 , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the 47 of young people should give serious 48 to these fields.
Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 49 life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some want security; others are willing to take 50 for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.