Will There Be Work for All?
Introduction
Jobs in the post-war world is a topic of interest to every officer and man in the United States Army, and for that matter, in all armies. We are interested be-cause we are all involved, or will be. A large majority o f us expect to resume a normal working life when we are discharged from the Army; most of us must, of necessity, find some kind of employment.
“No one can foresee the kind o f world which the war will leave behind, but we are subject to hopes and fears and the two play round robin when we attempt to imagine ourselves home and seeking a job. What-ever our powers of foresight, it is advisable to consider that the world we must inherit will be a different world from the one we left; and the job we left will not necessarily be the one to which we will return. What is important is that we fend a job that will give us a decent living.
“Every one o f us has enough at stake to consider the facts presented with care, and to prepare ourselves for a future whose limits and features still lie beyond the horizon. One way to prepare for that future is to give it as much study as the present permits and to make of the present, whenever possible, a training laboratory for the future.” (From “Jobs after the War,” vol. II, no. 6, Feb. g, 1944, of Army Talks-ET OUSA.)
