ANALYST'S C O L U M N Choosing α Career
Now to get back to how people choose their careers. We believe that many factors may be involved, such as money, education, and lack of guidance, but the force of personality which fires the young mind in its formative years is one of the greatest factors that deter mine the direction in which an individ ual will seek to gain satisfaction and contribute to his own creativity. Fam ily wishes and inspiration relative to career selection are notoriously non productive of positive results, but there are a sufficient number of sons who follow in their fathers' footsteps to show that parental guidance does influence some in selection of their career's. Initially it is the inspirational part of a person's nature that is aroused and maintains interest in a particular en deavor. This interest, of course, will die if the person's aptitude does not permit this later to be translated into the satisfaction of accomplishment. The initial awakening of interest in careers comes in the late grammar school years and in high school. This is the time when the intelligent and enthusias tic teacher forms in his students likes and dislikes concerning certain subjects. This is the time when inspiration is the basis of decision. If the decision can not be matched with the ability to con elude the aspiration successfully, then a new interest must be found. Imagine the individual devoid of the proper en vironment for mental and inspirational growth, and you realize why there is constant emphasis on the need for good and inspirational instruction at all levels of our educational system. Psychologists have for years been trying to reduce human behavior to a predictable pattern by analyzing and studying the individual facets of human reactions. They have been successful to a certain degree, but they are not so enthusiastic as they were years ago as to how accurately they can predict human success or failure. Inspiration, deter mination, will power, power of abstrac tion defy measurement, and we hope they represent that which lifts us above the commonplace and permits us to do and act in an unpredictable manner and at times grants us escape from our daily behavior, with the result that we perform acts of noble purpose and in tent which surprise our fellows and maybe even ourselves. V O L U M E 27, N O . 9, S E P T E M B E R
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