Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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EROM SALESMAN TO PART OWNER OF A COMPANY MY FATHER EXPLAINS HIS CAREER kkkkkkk HI started as a salesman for Concord Mills, a textile company, and today I am the manager and part owner of the company. My responsibility is to take care of customers and buyers from depart- ment stores all over the country and from foreign countries. The working hours are from Q A.M. to 6 P.M. The salary is without li- mit, the higher the position the higher the salary. There are plenty of jobs open for young men and a good chance for advancement The educational background must be good, and the person must be cordial and pleasant.H Jamie Savedoff LAWYER A LAWYER'S WORKING DAY IS DIVIDED BETWEEN RESEARCH AND ARGUING CASES IN COURT kkkkkkk A lawyer's responsibility is to serve his clients to the best of his abilityg to try not to cheat or obstruct the law. A lawyer's first salary may be smal1,but,as his popularity increases,so will his income. Political interests are also helpful in a lawyer's career. Advice to an undecided career- ist is to enter law, a career of self gratification and many op- portunities. Requirements for law are four years of college and two years of law school. Janet Dembitzer ,l-': :T- TECT MY FATHER IS AN ARCHITECT kkkkkkk His career started when he became interested in mathematics and drawing. He went to Col- umbia University and took archi- tecture. He then transferred to New York University where he received a professional degree. After receiving a degree, he passed a state examination. My father's responsibility is to coordinate activities of the designers, construction workers, and engineering staff, to make sure that a building upon completion is a finished product. The salary range for archi- tests is roughly S100 to S200 a week or 55,000 to 511,000 a year. The demands for draftsmen are very high and drafting is a good field for advancement into other fields. Richard Schwarz

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4-mlb--' H540 gffflill Q00 i'l If gfVfl fin!! glallfxl my il 00:9 an as uhm Nu NUM HQ 0 'VA' U N A' In this modern day ot space technology and scientigic re- search, we are bound to forget the average business men who make up the majority of our not an a- nation. My uncle is Stronaut, only a stockbroker. Yet his responsibilities as a broker are not to be ignored. To discuss with investors the proper type of securities best fitted for them as well as helping them decide which in- vestments should be made, are all part of the great burden undertaken by the stockbroker. To keep well informed, the stockbroker reads the morning paper to find out if any events have occured which may affect the customer's investments. He then informs the customer if his stock is being affected. Then he checks the purchase slips of the preceding day to see that no error has been made by the office. After this, he watches the ticker tape and tries to detect a trend. Trad- ers are informed about what's happening. 8 CKY K BECOME A STOCK BROKER! IT IS A RESPONSIBLE JOB K AND PAYS WELL AVVDK' .now av! lyk QVRW anon? 1 Fvvmlucnsmtlble STOCK BROKER U 5- Q Ll V1 Q, calls from orders for It is im- always kept news events as they He also receives customers and takes purchases and Sales. portant that he is well informed about throughout the day happen. He carefully watches for the prpper execution of any orders. At the end of the day, he discusses the daily events of the market with his customers. The salary of a stockbroker varies with the sales ability of the customer'S man. Most firms will not keep anyone who doesn't earn the minimum amount of money for himself and the company. Due to the great decline in the Stock Market, there is not at present a great demand for stockbrokers. However, there are always jobs for those well qualified. Most firms require a college degree. There is a training period course and a special exam required by the Stock Exchange and the National Association of Security Dealers Shelley Schwimmer Q ofa mr er cf u U ry qgfQl6QflUfVYq U00 Nusfuu Vllbdif'

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lr ' WINDOW DRESSER MY UNCLE IS A FREE LANCE w1NDow-DRESSER AND LIKES H15 Jos kkkkkkk He started his career as an apprentice to a window decorator, working after school. Now he owns his own business. As a freelance window decora- tor, he takes full responsibility for the window displays and the ordering or designing of the props. He works in several stores. He changes the window displays once a month in each individual store, and,if one store has ten windows, he will work on two each day. Unlike the department store window decorator who earns about one hundred dollars per week, a freelance window decorator sets his own price and gets paid by the day. There is a constant demand for freelance window decorators. A formal education is helpful, but a person who may start as an apprentice must have talent and determination. A diploma from an art school is a big help. Agnes Priedmann 10 STORE OWNER wwwwwww The advantages of owning one's own business far outweigh the dis- advantages. That is why my father enjoys being his own boss. The hours in his two apparel stores are long and irregular and the responsibility of bills and W Hlabor are many. if The working day commences at nine A.M. five days a week at which time these stores are open- ed for business. The day is di- vided between seeing salesmen and ordering merchandise, opening shipments, supervising personnel, checking inventory and processing re-orders of popular items, ob- serving the selling floor to see that all customers are helped, doing the essential bookkeeping, and planning future advertising and sales to stimulate business during the slow seasons. Keith Sherwood MINK CLASSIFIER BE A JACK-OF-ALL-JOBS IN THE FUR INDUSTRY AND HOPE FOR AN OPENING kkkkkkk My father is a mink classifier in the mutation mink department of the Hudson Bay Company. He be gan his career in the fur industry with I.J. Fox, Fifth Avenue, when he was twenty years old. In his work he determines the type of mink sent in by the mink ranchers in order to group them for grading purposes. He separates the hides into sapphires, pastels, silver- blues, and Aleutians. Steven Jacobs