Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training．Ideally, therefore, the choice of an 1 should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school．Actually, 2 , most people make several job choices during their working lives, 3 because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve 4 position．The "one perfect job" does not exist．Young people should 5 enter into a broad flexible training program that will 6 them for a field of work rather than for a single 7 ．
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans 8 benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist．Knowing 9 about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss 10 ．Some drift from job to job．Others 11 to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted．
One common mistake is choosing an occupation for 12 real or imagined prestige(声望)．
Too many high-school students - or their parents for them - choose the professional field, 13 both the relatively small percentage of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal 14 ．The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a White-collar job is 15 good reason for choosing it as life's work． 16 , these occupations are not always well paid．Since a large percentage of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the 17 of young people should give serious 18 to these fields．
Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 19 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 20 for financial gain．Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards．
Perhaps the most interesting person I have ever met in my life is an Italian professor of philosophy who teaches at the University of Pisa． 1 I last met this man eight years ago, I have not forgotten his 2 qualities．First of all, I respected his 3 to teaching．Because his lectures were always well-prepared and clearly delivered, students crowded into his classroom．His followers liked the fact that he 4 what he taught．Furthermore, he could be counted on to explain his ideas in an 5 way, introducing such aids to 6 as oil paintings, music, and guest lecturers．Once he 7 sang a song in class in order to make a point clear． 8 , I admired the fact that he would talk to students outside the classroom or talk with them 9 the telephone．Drinking coffee in the café, he would easily make friends with students．Sometimes he would 10 a student to a game of chess． 11 , he would join student groups to discuss a variety of 12 : agriculture, diving and mathematics and so on．Many young people visited him in his office for 13 on their studies; others came to his home for social evenings．Finally, I was 14 by his lively sense of humor．He believed that no lesson is a success 15 , during it, the students and the professor 16 at least one loud 17 ．Through his sense of humor, he made learning more 18 and more lasting．If it is 19 that life makes a wise man smile and a foolish man cry, 20 my friend is indeed a wise man．
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