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One of the man~· distressing features of our complex civil- ization is the man who is working at the wrong job: as some- one has said, the l'Otmd peg trying to fill the square hole, or the square peg trying to fill the round hole. Almost every- one of us knows the preacher who would have been a better blacksmith, just as often tnte teachers or doctors or preachers may hE' found in tillers of the soiI or hewers of wood. The problem resulting from this situation seriously occupies the thots of all employers of labor on a large scale. To a certain radical group of applied psychologists the problem would be met thru psychological tests upon the child at an early age, and as their findings might indicate, the child would be educated in a narrowly specialized way to become an efficient doctor or expert ditch-digger, for example.
While few of you would wish to subscribe to this extreme doctrine, you have doubtless realized that there is a problem because you will have to solve it for yomselves before long if you haven't done so aheady. Fortunately, most of you are going to prolong yom education for sometime yet under circumstances which do not make a choice imperative now, and unde1· circumst!mces which will enable you to choose better and more wisely, than your less fortu!late brothers who will not have the same amount of education.
To give directions for finding the right job cannot be done in a general way, for no two cases arc alike or call for the same treatment. Broadly-you can begin by finding what you really like to do-not what you think you might like to do or what some one you l"1low likes to do.