How to Analyze People on Sight

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An opposite case is that of a friend of ours who has worked in an
uncongenial profession for thirty years. "You were meant for
engineering, Tom," we told him. "With all the leanings you had in that
direction, how did it happen you didn't follow it?"

"Because the man who cheated my father out of all he had was an
engineer!" he said.

Never choose a new vocation just because you are _restless_. You will be
more so if you get into the wrong one.


The "Society" Delusion

Never choose a vocation just because it promises _social standing_.
The entree it gives will fail you unless you make good. And social
standing isn't worth much anyhow. When you are in the work for which you