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Show Eaton urges students to be prepared ran for 12 months in four three-month three-month segments. After that time, Eaton felt confident, confi-dent, trained and ready to apply for a job. In Southern California, he worked work-ed in a car dealership doing breaks, tune-ups and front end alignments. He felt good about the choice he had made to go to a trade school. With a little training, the towering tower-ing Eaton changed his life and embarked em-barked upon a new career as a professional pro-fessional basketball player, but that profession "may end tomorrow, Eaton said. He is lucky that he has a mechanical background to fall back on. He says he could be happy working work-ing on cars if that is the course his life will take in the future. Eaton's wife, Marci, wanted to be a nurse ever since she was 5-y 5-y ears -old. After high school, she attended at-tended UCLA for one year but with 1,500 students taking anthropology and 1 ,400 of those going into nursing nurs-ing and knowing the school would only accept 500 students, Marci decided on another route for becoming becom-ing a nurse. She took a hospital nursing nur-sing course and got an associate degree from a junior college. She has been able to use her nursing nurs-ing skills with her husband and their two sons. Utahns are in an advantageous position because of their high birth rate, and it will be critical for them to have the training to be able to fill the jobs that are becoming available, Dr. Carol Berry from the Utah Office of Job Training said. Becoming a doctor, engineer or a professional is what most parents would choose for their children, but when given the opportunity to res pond, 70 percent of young adults surveyed said they would attend a vocational school if they could be assured a good job at the end of two or three years. "A job in which they can continue con-tinue to learn, find stimulating and is a steady job is what most people are looking for," Berry said. She encouraged particpants at the seminar sem-inar to think about their options of good paying jobs and to help stop good companies from leaving Utah because they can't find qualified workers. "The American dream for youth today is that each succeeding generation ge-neration has been able to raise the standard of living higher than that of their parents,' said Dr. Kelly Matthews, an economist for First Security Bank Corp. "In order to keep mat dream alive for young people today, three things have to be considered: First, because 80 percent of the new jobs in Utah do not require four years of college or more, students should consider attending a vocational school in order to qualify for the 80 percent rather than the 20 percent of professional jobs. Second, the quality quali-ty of workforce is competing with foreign countries and third, Utahns to increase their technical productivity produc-tivity or jobs will be working and gaining training in other states and countries rather than here Matthews concluded. By JAMS STUART Clipper Correspondent KAYSVEXE At 7-foot-4, Mark Eaton is built to play basketball, basket-ball, but he says if his athletic c-careerended c-careerended tomorrow, he could fall back on his technical training in mechanics. Eaton made the comments during seminar last week at the Davis Applied Ap-plied Tehcnical Center, where he gave students and parentsthe positive side of being trained for jobs in a technical work force and of attending a vocational school. He did not always dream of playing play-ing basketball for a living, the big Utah Jazz center confided. In high school and college he was always on the team because of his height, but mostly warming the bench until his senior year when he played in two games. Having no aspirations of playing in the NBA at that point, he had decided athletics would not be a part of his life. So Eaton spent much of his youthful days at the beach in Southern California, not knowing what he wanted to do with his life. But Eaton said he also spent part of the summer hours pulling apart diesel engines, something he had learned from his father who was a vocational education instructor in diesel mechanics. After graduating from school he headed to Phoenix, Ariz, with a friend to attend a tech school that l a ? 1 B ' r ' ' n j MARK EATON Three years later he was approached ap-proached at a tire store by a gentlemen who wanted to help him with his basketball skills. After two and one-half months, Eaton finally agreed to play for one hour on Sundays. |