art has its traditional
standards and ethics, which should be considered.

PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS

In selecting his vocation, the wise man ascertains his fitness for its
physical surroundings. Some men cannot work permanently indoors,
underground, in a high altitude, in a hot or cold climate, in a damp or a
dry climate, in high or low artificial temperature, in the midst of noise
or dust or chemical fumes, or by artificial light, or in a locality where
certain social advantages do not exist or where satisfactory homes cannot
be rented or purchased. Some men are not fitted for city life; others are
not fitted for country life. All these and other facts should be taken
into consideration with reference to surroundings.

MANAGEMENT AND SUPERIORS

The management of every place has its personal preferences, not based on
efficiency. We once knew a manager who was so distressed by impediments of
speech that he could not endure persons with these peculiarities in his
organization, although their manner of speech had nothing to do with the
quality of their work. Every manager has some more or less marked
idiosyncrasies, and these must be known and studied by prospective
employees. The personality of the management and its effect upon the
worker under its direction and leadership are other important factors. The
manager who is a keen, positive driver will get good results with a
certain type of people in his organization, but only with a certain type.
The efficiency of every man in the organization is also conditioned very
largely upon the personal preferences, personality, and methods of his
immediate superior--his foreman, gang-boss, or chief. Certain types of men
harmonize and work well together. Other types are antagonistic and
discordant. By their very nature they cannot work in the harmony which is
essential to efficiency. In making choice of work, the man with good
judgment scrutinizes all these important elements.

ASSOCIATES AND SOCIAL ADVANTAGES

Every vocation has its social environment. There are fellow employees, or
professional associates, inevitable in the work itself; also the
particular class of society fixed by locality, income, or the standing of
the vocation.

This chart may seem, at first sight, to be complex. It must necessarily be
so, since it is arranged to cover all professions and trades and all
industrial and commercial positions, from the presidency of a corporation,
general managership of a