Cloze Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an 1 should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, 2 , most people make several job choices during their working lives, 3 because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve 4 position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should 5 enter into a broad flexible training program that will 6 them for a field of work rather than for a single 7 . Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans 8 benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing 9 about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss 10 . Some drift from job to job. Others 11 to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for 12 real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field, 13 both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal 14 . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is 15 good reason for choosing it as life's work. 16 , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the 17 of young people should give serious 18 to these fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 19 life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some want security; others are willing to take 20 for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.
The homeless make up a growing percentage of America's population. 21 homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments can't possibly 22 . To help homeless people 23 independence, the federal government must support job training programs 24 the mini—mum wage, and fund more lowcost housing. 25 everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates 26 anywhere from 600,000 to 6 million. 27 the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless is 28 . One of the federal government's studies 29 that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade. Finding ways to 30 this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult. 31 when homeless Individuals manage to find a 32 that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day 33 the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others 34 not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday 35 skills needed to turn their lives 36 . Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are 37 programs that address the many needs of the homeless, 38 Edward Zlotkowski, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts, 39 it, "There has to be 40 of programs. What's needed is a package deal."