As You Come into the Campus Cafeteria You Join Your

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Essay

As you come into the campus cafeteria you join your friends who are discussing how occupational choices are made. One friend believes that we choose our careers based on the importance we place on various work rewards, a second says we are pushed into our jobs through the social influence of parents and peers, and a third says there are much more potent forces in the broader social environment that affect where we end up occupationally. They ask you what you think-how do you respond?

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