Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an     21    should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually,     22    , most people make several job choices during their working lives,     23    because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve     24    position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should     25    enter into a broad flexible training program that will     26    them for a field of work rather than for a single     27    .
    Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans     28    benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing     29    about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss     30    . Some drift from job to job. Others     31    to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
    One common mistake is choosing an occupation for     32    real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field,     33    both the relatively small proportion of work vacancies in the professions but the extremely high educational and personal     34    . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is     35    good reason for choosing it as life's work.     36    , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the     37    of young people should give serious     38    to these fields.
    Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants     39    life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take     40    for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.