“…Such insight seems fundamental to overcoming the variable of status motivation as an overweighted factor in career choice and perhaps later job, if not, "self satisfaction. Bank (1969) suggested early exposure to occupations for the development of "ap propriate attitudes toward all types of work and workers" (p. 285). It seems appropriate that educators of bilingual students should pro mote and implement curricula which incorporate knowledge about occupational groups designed to facilitate this accomplishment.…”