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Interview with Campbell High School final year students.
The purpose of life, I think, is to spend your time constructively
and usefully.
People should pay a great deal of attention to the nature of the
occupation they want to fill. It is very important to be happy
in whatever you do.
There are many people who might be able to do a different job which
will give them higher wages, but unless there is happiness in the
work you are doing, contentment in the work you are doing, I don't
think any individual will do that work as well as he or she should
or -really would want to, and there won't be satisfaction in it.
Success can be measured in many different ways: bringing up the
faadly well, having your children, having a close-knit and
contented and happy family unit. All of that is very important.
That might be the most important thing of all.
I think, in going through life, if you can contribute to the
people around you your own community, to help make it a better
place that also adds to the value and quality of what you are
doing, and I think it tends to add to your own happiness in going
through life.
To try and sum it up, pick an occupation that is going to be a
useful and constructive one, but certainly one that has-happiness
as a part of the measure of whether you want to do it or not.
Don't just measure it in terms of monetary reward to come; and
whatever you do, seek to do it as well as you can, because that
again is rewarding; and seek to do something that contributes to
your, own community, not just to yourself.
14 November 1978 000---