---------------------------------------------------------------------- Occupation| Domestic Worker| Architect | Physician | Journalist ----------+----------------+--------------+--------------+------------ Abilities |Joyful work |Esthetic sense|Social dealing|Sociability Required |Energy |Imagination |Energy |Energy |Patience |Industry |Discretion |Memory |Teaching |Drawing |Tact |Accuracy |Economy |Modeling |Judgment |Judgment |Physique |Specification | |Observation | |Employment | | | | of men | | |Housekeeping |Architecture |Dissection |Typewriting |Sewing |Engineering |Microscopical |Quick |Cooking |Heating | Observation | Expression |Nursing |Ventilating |Psychotherapy |Forceful |House furnishing|Construction |Clinical | style | | | Activity | | | |Surgical | | | | Technique | ----------+----------------+--------------+--------------+------------ Implied |Morality |Honor |Honor |Honor Personal |Beauty |Beauty |Truth |Truth Motives |Position |Position |Position |Influence and Social|Support |Fees |Fees |Salary Interests |Home Life |Comfort |Influence |Progress |Family Welfare |Progress | | | | | | |Comfort of |Housing |Welfare of |Politics |Community | | Community |Education |Family Comfort | |Health |Information | | |Prevention of |Entertain- | | | Disease | ment --------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is obvious that such analysis is inadequate for our purpose. For the most part the various vocations are said to be actuated by much the same motives, the leading satisfactions being honor, truth, position, beauty, progress, fees or salary, and welfare. These enumerations, of course, help us in no way to distinguish between the particular satisfactions or interests involved in the different types of work. Quite the same thing is true of the abilities required. Most of them call for energy, industry, judgment and ability to deal with people. The same might be said of prize-fighting, plumbing and peddling. And do not the journalist and the housekeeper require tact as well as the physician? Is it true that the architect alone, of the four examples here given, has use for imagination and an esthetic sense, that the domestic alone needs physical development and joyfulness? Accuracy is perhaps more necessary to success in architecture than to the pursuit of journalism, while judgment, discretion and observation would seem to be of occasional value even to the housekeeper and the architect.
