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Show Majority of graduates are college bound childcare, 10; warehouse-loading, 10; manufacturing, 9; restaurants, 8; construction, 7; welding, 6; maids, 5; automative-delivery, 4; telemarketing, 3; garbage collecting, collect-ing, 2; plant nursery, 2; floral design, de-sign, 1; and teaching English in Japan, 1. The highest paid wage earner in Layton's class of 1987 was a welder wel-der who earns $8 an hour. By DONETA GATHERUM Graduating from high school is the beginning of adult life. Some students leave ready to start a job, while others feel high school is preparatory pre-paratory to a university, college or trade school. Most graduates are flexible and explore many areas before be-fore deciding how to spend their adult work life. The trend in Davis County is for 60 percent of the graduates to enroll in a four-year college. Fifteen percent per-cent go to a junior college, a trade .school or a business school. Approximately Appro-ximately 30 percent move directly to a job or go into the military. One high school reports five percent of their graduates do volunteer work for a short period of time after high school. One high school counselor predicted pre-dicted the consistent pattern established estab-lished in the past will change greatly great-ly in the next five years. The expense ex-pense of a college education nd stif-fer stif-fer entrance requirements, combined com-bined with more availability of community colleges and trade schools will give those desiring more education, more practical options. op-tions. Another counselor observed many start college and then drop out to work, serve LDS missions or get married. These young people may or may not complete their college col-lege education. Other graduates discover after years in the workplace work-place that their job is not satisfying. They attend college to prepare for a second and sometimes a third career. John Adams, a counselor at Woods Cross High, had the students stu-dents taking the ACT test in 1987 list their educational plans, vocational voca-tional choices and choice of institutions. institu-tions. This information followed the same pattern in other county high schools with small variations in that students in the north end of the county attend Weber State Col lege more frequently. Donna Parker from Layton High School, recently completed a vocational voca-tional student follow-up of the 1987 graduates. One interesting fact the survey brought out was that 65 of the graduates had moved out of the area less than one year after graduation. gra-duation. Her findings support the Woods Cross survey. Approximately 130 members of Layton's class of 1987 indicated they were working full time. Cashier and salesclerk (21) was the most common job. Other jobs in order of frequency included reception-secretarial, 15; fast foods, 13; grocery store, 12; nanny- |