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One hundred and two persons were located 25 years after they had taken a Kuder Preference Record (KPR)-B at an average age of 14 years. Fifty-three percent were engaged in occupations consistent with their highest interest scores, although 32 percent were in occupations consistent with their lowest scores. Those in consistent occupations reported significantly greater job satisfaction, but no difference in self-assessed performance. The present study was undertaken not so much to demonstrate the validity of the KPR which it employes, but to explore the possibility that a set of homogeneous interest scales, administered 25 years previously to junior year high school students, can have any relationship to several occupational criteria. Similar studies were reviewed. Results from the current study were interpreted to mean that counseling for future occupations should not be done from KPR scale scores at age 14, but that interests measured this early do bear a relationship to occupations observed 25 years later. (Author/AG)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert