You And Your Work

Titles. 07:23:51 SOF INT high school guidance counselor at desk - receives call from an employer asking for any suitable students. Counselor to camera: “Work, there’s a word that’s used much more than it’s understood.” re ex-student Frank Taylor & his first job five years before. Opens file card drawer & takes out card. 07:24:54 CU Frank’s ID card. 07:25:00 Frank narrates as he walks, notices sign in window of shoe store. CU Help Wanted Part Time - Will Train; into shop & gets job but soon bored putting shoes away CUs. Late for work - boss angry - MCU fitting shoes; argues w/ customer after forcing wrong-sized shoe on her foot; boss gestures he’s fired. 07:26:26 Frank in school counselor’s office to ask for another job but counselor suggests the shoe store he just got fired from; they discuss why he got fired. “There’s no such thing as a dull job”. 07:28:01 Architect looking at blueprints; 07:28:07 Pan American Airlines plane taxiing 07:28:17 Montage: teacher w/ students at her desk; pharmacist w/ customer; fishermen; chemist; bank clerk at work. 07:28:34 Frank & counselor talk: “...to enjoy your work, you need to find in it more than money”. 07:29:53 Three ex-students helped into first jobs by counselor talk to camera re job satisfaction w/ shots of carpentry, farming & secretarial work. Factory workers; railroad yard; salesmen. Continue to talk. 07:31:42 Frank back working at shoe store; serving male customer MCU measuring foot, fitting. Smiling, happy. 07:32:52 Counselor to camera “That was five years ago...” Frank now managing shoe store & had called him to ask for an assistant from high school. “Does this begin to sound like fiction? It does happen.” The End. Employment; Attitudes; Social Responsibility; Workers; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; 1948; Teenagers; Americana; Positive Thinking; 1940s;