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Why College Women Clhopse Ceirtaiini Jobs' ly LEONARD A. OSTLUND. PkD. (Part I) VTHY DO psychologists study occupational choice pattern? Because. If ran understand the force which motivate Negroes to choose certain Jot, we can uae thla Information In guidance.

This will Insure more adequate vocational choice which will reault in Job satisfaction. Did you ever stop to think that the average worker spends one third of hi life on the Job? Figure it out for yourself. Eight hours is one third of a day. If you want to quibble about days off. let me remind you that they ate probably balanced by hours of overtime, commuting, or thinking about the Job.

PSYCHOLOGICALLY, it Is difficult to imagine a more empty existence than that of a person chained to a Job for which he has no interest, Inclination; or enthusiasm. Yet. this is the unhappy fate of many workers. Time and again, when workers are asked the question. "If you could live your life over, would you choose the same Job?" the answer was "No!" When I worked for a large public aUllty, I aetieed thai some of the workers would arrive la the moralag.

with eyes half opea and feet draggtag, pane the dock, and slowly snaffle off to work. They seemed to say, "Here's the body." However, at o'clock It was a different picture. Now. their eyes sparkled, ae they waited la One, After they punched the clock, they raa eat the door, ae If to say, I five agala." i Fortunately. It doesn't have to happen now.

Education, guidance, and counseling help students choose compatible Jobs. This brings rich rewards, socially, psychologically and financially. Furthermore, more opportunities are opening throughout America for Negroes, as the picture becomes more favorable with each passing day. I IN MY YEARS of teaching, guidance, and counseling. I have seen too many who had already gone a long way down the wrong road.

Unrealistic expectations. Hollywood glamor, and over ambitious parents rsuse some students to embark; upon careers which are doomed to disappointment, frustration And failure. As a specific, example, I remember letting aw ex GI. This was during any Internship at a VA Guidance t'Unkv fie sated to become an engineer, but hU test profile was so wrong that he didn't aland a chance. Before breaking the news.

I asked, "Tell me, what prompted you to become an engineer?" lie answered, "Well, during the war, I wss sent on a cMHan lUru to South America to deliver a replacement part for 1 a liAbli'd plane. The civilian next to me was an engineer. lie told me about prospecting for gold and emeralds In the Andes, the head hunting and head shrinking Jlvaros, and tlie girls of Peru. Then snd there I decided that's for me!" As you might Imntrlne, It took time to cunvlm him that Interest, sbllitles, aptitudes, and scholastic srhlevemcnt sie prerequisites for success In "engine" school. a W1III.E ASSOCIATED with Oklahoma State University as school examiner, I lectured to 50 frekhtnen.

met them In stnail groups, and In Individual conference. My research from these experiences was presented before the Oklahoma Psychological Association. Here. I met some of the faculty from Langstora University, a coeducational Negro University, at Langston, Ok Is. Later, thanke to the kind cooperation of Prof.

i. L. Bashes, director of Public Services, and Deaa L. Moore. visited Langston University for my research project.

I administered a questionnaire entitled, "Confidential Vocational Choice laves tory" to 87 Negro women students who had enrolled six months ago. The average age of the plils was IS and all were single. The majority were from small towns, for 79 per rent came from communities whose population was less than 25.000. The questionnaire consisted of fill Ins and check boxes which totaled over 40 items. The items were presented In a chronological sequence, beginning with childhood, encompassing adolescence, and concluding with questions based upon college experiences.

I KNEW that students In the lower Income brackets sre sensitive about their ststus. Therefore, the question on parental Income Included a ststemcnt that this could he left blank. It wss. I guessed correctly, for 97 per cent didn't answer. My hunch, which was verified by college officials, and by other questions, ass that many of these students rsme from Impoverished homes.

Actually, only 95 pee seat of the parents were employed la professions, skilled trades or business. The largest group 41 per rent were laborers. Yet. these parents were snaking sacrifices for the benefit of their children. Certainly, this Indicate that Negroes want their children to become educated so that they ran take advantage of aew borlson.

(Continued Next Week) Avgvtt 31, 1957 THE AUTHOR Dr. Ontlund Is a white psychologist who has been active In Integration while serving In the U. S. Nsy during World Wsr II. and while teac hing, counseling, and conducting re ne arch at various universities.

He is now on the psychology faculty of Kent State University. Ohio, teaching adult Negro and white atudents in an integrated teacher training program. Boycott Figure THIY TOIL, THIY SUN both yarn, esd history tots Lee Parks, martyr of te Montgomery but boycott, meet! Detroit's embattled Ethel I kiss, esotner tsssv. .1 stress wke stood Kee frovad sf odd's. Mrs.

YVetkWts figured to the iiees Cksrry la Secidest.Jekeiea Pkete. Why Mre. Parks Left: Ala. By CHESTER BIGGINS HOW COME Rosa Lee Parks had to leave Alabama? A place where she had lived all her life she was born there like her mother before her. Did she leave by choice, this spunky lit lis woman who stubborn refusal to budge from her seat when demanded by prejudiced whites on a Montgomery bus, Dec.

1, 1933. sparked the organizing cf the Montgomery Improvement Association, the bitter unrelenting battle against bigotry and mlstrestment by the bus concern, and the rise of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the prominence of a national leader for freedom? WHAT OMFE1ULED HER to dig up roots In Alabama, to leave behind rsrnde and acquaintances a tie has known for a lifetime, and come to Detroit to take up a life among virtual atrangers? a he told The Courier why: "I lost my Job, Jan. IMA.

a few weeks after I was arrested for so called vtolatloa of baa segregation laws," she said. "I a as working at a big downtown department store as a seamstress. After I wss arrested on thla charge, the white trade began to fall off. I simply didn't have enough work to keep me busy and I was politely laid off. The Negroes couldn ur nlh me l'h enough work.

My husband worked. It la true, but I I have been wmking st my pi feton fr" veai. 1 uuslji't Just sit siid Hie aa." a TIllH fcEKMEO. on the surface, to Le the whole truth, t'n (Vrnesth ms lie a rertsin bitterness of experieiirrs which followed the hUtotir event bitterness that may have sprung from her hrrunung It. so to snrak.

In tlie shuffle of events loUowtrg her heroic effort. Mr. Parka as seldom me a I to a a the real east ti ss leader of tabs stracsfes. Others sssrs leeread a4 take a thtag from Dr. Kksg wer Uahered let the leadrrsaip aad hogged the shew.

They bsaked In tl glory of the battle and the eventual vvc tory. thereof, pethsps, as a proud and sensitive i re.vslity. she resented standing In the wings while othets merved the hiuxsha. She srowhi't talk about this. She tsiked about thetr hoke of Drtrott as a piave lo live.

"ThelT" refers I her humtl. R. A. Parks, 5 a baibrr IvT 35 year, and her mother. Mis.

Lens CurW. G9. He will be umbl to lake tt barber's exams sis rr leading to the muiiK: li rense to prr tus trslr in the state, he ia been informed. "MEAN TI ME, w.ll m. around fur snmrth.eg i klrs.

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