Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of a(n) 【A1】______ should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, 【A2】______ most persons make several job choices during their working lives, partly 【A3】______ economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their positions. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should therefore 【A4】______ into a broad flexible training program that will 【A5】______ them for a field of 【6A】______ rather than for a single job.

Unfortunately many young people, knowing 【A7】______ about the occupational world or themselves for themselves for that matter, choose their lifework 【A8】______ a hit-or-miss basis. Some 【A9】______ from job to job. Others【A10】______ to work in which they are unhappy and 【A11】______ they are not fitted.

One common mistake is choosing an occupation for 【A12】______real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them choose the professional field, 【A13】______ both the relatively small proportion of work vacancies in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal 【A14】______. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white- collar" job is 【A15】______ good reason for choosing it as a life’ s work. 【A16】______ , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the majority of young people should give serious 【A17】______ to these fields.

Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 【A18】______  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 【A19】______ for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its 【A20】______.