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... What Can a Young Man Do ? F. H. Rollins ; A Guide to the Study of Occupations , F. J. Allen ; How to Get a Position and How to Keep It , S. R. Hall ; If I were Twenty - One , W. Maxwell ; The Training of viii PREFACE INVESTMENT BANKING.
... What Can a Young Man Do ? F. H. Rollins ; A Guide to the Study of Occupations , F. J. Allen ; How to Get a Position and How to Keep It , S. R. Hall ; If I were Twenty - One , W. Maxwell ; The Training of viii PREFACE INVESTMENT BANKING.
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... should be trained to feel that he occupies a contemptible position if he does not do so . " Red - blooded boys and men like work , and every man is a better man and has more self - confidence and self - VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 3.
... should be trained to feel that he occupies a contemptible position if he does not do so . " Red - blooded boys and men like work , and every man is a better man and has more self - confidence and self - VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 3.
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... positions , drifted from one thing to another until at last they were on the street with their money gone and not knowing from where their next meal would come . Ashamed to see their friends or call for help from the people they knew ...
... positions , drifted from one thing to another until at last they were on the street with their money gone and not knowing from where their next meal would come . Ashamed to see their friends or call for help from the people they knew ...
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... position of a girl operating a machine in a mill and that of one operating a typewriter in an office is somewhat marked . In the same way , a young man will take a white- collar job for fifteen dollars a week , when he could be earning ...
... position of a girl operating a machine in a mill and that of one operating a typewriter in an office is somewhat marked . In the same way , a young man will take a white- collar job for fifteen dollars a week , when he could be earning ...
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... position to learn much that will be of harm to him or her , and which would not be learned from the school or home environment . A child's mental growth is stunted by being obliged to do mechani- cal things , because its lack of skill ...
... position to learn much that will be of harm to him or her , and which would not be learned from the school or home environment . A child's mental growth is stunted by being obliged to do mechani- cal things , because its lack of skill ...
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Page 4 - ... would have him every day take stock of things vocational in terms of world values. I would have him devote a full fourth of his time to what will bring him earning power, to be used for that purpose if he needs it, and to give him an independent spirit if he does not need it. Every man is a better man if he feels the power to earn his way, whether he needs to do it or not.