Our boys : a study of the 245,000 sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old employed boys of the state of New York . ommercial subjects. Boys desir-ing to be in retail business are most interested in commercial sub-jects and language. Boys desiring to be in professional occupationsexpressed their greatest dislike for manual training and desiring to be in clerical occupations disliked drawing andlanguage most. Boys desiring to be in retail business disliked com-mercial subjects, drawing, language and manual training. It shouldbe noted, however, that boys desiring to follow retail b
Our boys : a study of the 245,000 sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old employed boys of the state of New York . ommercial subjects. Boys desir-ing to be in retail business are most interested in commercial sub-jects and language. Boys desiring to be in professional occupationsexpressed their greatest dislike for manual training and desiring to be in clerical occupations disliked drawing andlanguage most. Boys desiring to be in retail business disliked com-mercial subjects, drawing, language and manual training. It shouldbe noted, however, that boys desiring to follow retail business alsoexpressed their greatest like for language and commercial likes and dislikes for certain subjects in fact are so scatteringand varied as to be of little value in prognosticating a boys futureoccupation. OvE Bovs 235 *.-? s. p 3 Si Q b: O H 0) « *-^ t. SI , o) O OQ eg - o lllJililil >°mT<« 1^ B I ? . I _ g B 11 a lllllllllll : : : : : S» : : : :2a : : : : gi : • 1 i-i S i« !5 3 § 13 g 2 O lo 2Q i I- m 3t «Ott«)JO<lBa«I£ ^tfl. t»I>TC>M,I r« 236 Our Boys Chart No. 24-R (see table No. 24-R in the appendix) shows thepercent of fathers and boys who are in and boys who desire to bein each of the various occupations. It shows very clearly that moreboys desire to follow professional, retail business, executive positions,government service, metal trades and transportation than are atpresent following these occupations. Fewer boys expressed a desireto continue in than are at present engaged in the other few exceptions there is not a great deal of difference betweenthe number of boys and fathers in each of the occupations and thenumber of bovs who desire to be in them. Ouj{ Bovs 237 fnoovrtiMtm *, <««*«^ iwu-^ T t«»* two* I £?«« SvlDOXO (••Dine o 238 Our Boys CHAPTER XXV Findings and Conclusions The findings and conclusions of this report as given in detail inthe twenty
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