ability. Then he should go
into the particular _branch_ of that vocation which is best adapted to
his personality, training, education, environment and experience.

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Part One

VOCATIONS FOR ALIMENTIVES

As stated in Chapter I, Alimentives are born for business. They can
sell almost anything in the line of food, clothing, or shelter because
they are so interested in them themselves they can make them interesting
to others. They like money for the comforts which money alone can bring
and business furnishes a wider field for money-making than any other. So
the Alimentive likes the commercial world for itself and for what it
brings him.

Sells Things to People

The Alimentive can deal with both people and things, but it should be
in the capacity of selling the things to the people.

Chances for Money-Making

The Alimentives have the greatest opportunities today for making
fortunes and many of the multi-millionaires of America are combinations
of this type with the Cerebral. This is due to the fact that the world
must be fed, clothed and sheltered and the Alimentive, more than any
other type, excels in the marketing, manufacturing and merchandizing of
these things.

A Good Overseer

The Alimentive makes an excellent overseer also. He is so genial,
likable and yet so bent on saving himself work that he can get more work
out of others than can any other type.

So he succeeds as a foreman, supervisor, boss, superintendent, manager
and sales department head.

Capitalizes His "Comfort" Instincts

The Alimentive loves comforts. He feels he must have them. Because any
man's success will be found to lie in the direction which most nearly
satisfies his basic instincts, the Alimentive succeeds by making "the
good things of life" look so interesting to others they are willing to
buy them from him at the best prices.

The Alimentively Inclined

Every man who is largely Alimentive in type can sell commodities or
oversee the work of others. Every woman who is largely Alimentive can
also sell the same commodities, oversee the work of others in her
department and become a good cook.

Things to Avoid

The Alimentive should avoid vocations dealing exclusively with ideas.
Books are almost the only things an Alimentive can not sell
successfully. This is due to the fact that he is not as interested in
ideas as in things, and the things he is interested in--food and
c