TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 129, 3 June 1933, Page 17

TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

'fWhat Shall I Be?" is a wholly practical contribution to the problem of choosing a career. Mrs. Amabel Williams-Ellis has realised that for many_ young people choosing a 'profession is like buying a pig in a poke. They may fancy this or that, asph-e to famo as a scientist 6i- as the owner Of a brass-plate in Harley Street, but of the ever-present trivialities of the life thoy proposed to lead—they have no idea. In tho fields that it covers this book supplies that idea, by^givihg a first-hand description of a day in the life of various professional'people; The contributors are actually engaged in the work of which they write, though only a few of them, write tinder their own names. By the time you have ffead Miss Rachel Finch's account of her day as a probationer in a London hospital, you feel that you really do know something about hospital routine; and at tho other end of the pole you dan learn, from one of tho party, the life of a part}* of Scientific Workers on a coi'al island. Tho profession's dealt with in* elude thoso of a panel doctor, a social Worker,'.an c'nUpjmologiat, a-' research" cheniist, a municipal engineer, and a civil, engineer. Manual and commercial occupations are not dealt With in this volume. The author's aim has been to provide information abOut come of those profesSioris Which require an early decision because of their long period of training, and, moreover, professions in which there will probably be an increasing demand for recruits in the nbar future.