“Your appreciation of financial and commercial values and methods is deficient.  This is due to many different things, but principally to your lack of observation, your inability to see things in their right relations, and your limited sense of values.  For these reasons you are not and cannot become vitally interested in financial and commercial affairs.  If your wants were supplied, and you had something interesting to do, money would receive practically no consideration from you.  For your own sake, you ought to attach more importance to monetary considerations, cultivate a greater sense of values, develop more practical commercial sense.  On the other hand, however, you should not attempt any vocation in which a high development of these qualities is necessary.

“In practical affairs, you show a tendency not to learn by experience.  This is because of deficiency in your observation of facts.  You do not really understand the essential facts of the experiences through which you pass, and, therefore, they do not impress or teach you.

“In your choice of a vocation you should make up your mind once for all that, on account of the qualities I have described, you are not commercial or financial, and, therefore, you do not belong in the industrial or commercial world.  Your talents are educational, dramatic, professional, literary.  You are decidedly of the mental type.  Your world is a mental world, an intellectual world.  Ideas, ideals, and theories are the things with which you can deal most successfully.

“Owing to your distaste for detail, and the difficulty you have in applying yourself to a task until it is finished, and also on account of your very keen and sensitive critical faculties, you are probably better fitted for success as a critic than as a producer.

“A position in a house publishing books and magazines, where your duty would be to read, analyze, and criticise manuscripts, would offer you far better opportunities than anything you have yet attempted.

“You could probably do well in a mail-order house as correspondent.

“You also have some dramatic ability which, if developed and trained, might make you a success, either on the stage or in the pulpit.  In this connection, I merely call your attention, in passing, to the opportunities in the motion picture drama.  Here is where dramatic ability is everything and the heavier demands upon the actor in the ordinary drama, especially in the way of physical development, voice, etc., do not enter.

“Another line which might possibly interest you would be that of a salesman in an art or music store, where customers come to you, or in a book store.  You probably would do better selling to women than to men.

“Whatever you do, you should work under direction, under the direction of some one whose judgment, wisdom, honesty, and high principles you respect.  Under wise leadership you have your very best opportunities for success.  In attempting to be your own manager and to go your own way, you suffer from the serious handicaps to which I have already referred.