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Having gone through graduate school and experienced the academic and intellectual challenge of advanced study, the new anthropologist is often excited by the anticipation of a life evolving around the merits of structuralism, functionalism or cultural ecology. Until recently; it has been almost exclusively the goal of graduate schools to train anthropologists to be fieldworkers and professor. For decades this expectation went unchallenged, but with the emergence of the Seventies and the corresponding decline in the job market, it has become obvious that fewer newly-trained anthropologists will be standing in front of classrooms. Instead they will be seeking their mark in places they may not have anticipated - in government agencies, private foundations, corporations and community colleges. The anthropologist in applied areas in general, and in the community college in particular, must face realities for which his graduate education may not have prepared him. Those vicarious dreams of teaching Crow kinship and reading aloud passages from The Rise of Anthropological Theory may have to be deferred.

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