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School roles influence job choice </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc"><P> NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Whether you were a geek, athlete, cheerleader, <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_0" class="yshortcuts">teacher's pet</SPAN>, class clown or honor student in <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_1" class="yshortcuts">high school</SPAN>, chances are it influenced your <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_2" class="yshortcuts">career choice</SPAN>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc">Geeks gravitated toward engineering and retail jobs. Athletes tended to work in the transportation industry, while former cheerleaders, who were more likely to reach <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_3" class="yshortcuts">vice president level</SPAN>, were drawn to careers in travel and insurance</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc"><P><SPAN id="lw_1212687158_4" class="yshortcuts">Cheerleaders</SPAN> also had the second highest level of <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_5" class="yshortcuts">job satisfaction</SPAN>, after <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_6" class="yshortcuts">teacher's pets</SPAN>, at 76 percent.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc">Former members of student government earned the most money and tended to work as directors or managers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc">Forty-one percent of teacher's pets held administrative or clerical</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc">former honor society members chose professional and technical services</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc">athletes had careers in the transportation </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/lf_nm_life/career_highschool_dc">Geeks and class clowns reported the most <SPAN id="lw_1212687158_8" class="yshortcuts">job dissatisfaction</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DE6F7F28-9908-4E07-9F92-DA575EADF246/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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