While traditional forms of career counseling are effective for many individuals, some clients may perceive a strong religious or spiritual call to a career and may therefore require a different understanding of career counseling. This qualitative study sought to describe the process through which individuals perceive and follow a religious or spiritual call to a career, for a small sample of Roman Catholic participants. Themes emerging from the study included a sense of career choice arising from a mutual relationship with God, and struggles both with faith and with being called. Participants described various sources of support as well as challenges in following their calling. The results of the study can assist psychologists and career counselors when working with religious clients who want to incorporate religion and spirituality into the career decision-making process.

This paper reports on a study exploring the motivations of professional software workers. We hypothesized that extrinsic motivation is more important to software professionals of today than to those of fifteen to twenty years ago, and that among those in the field today, it is most important for those who had been in the prqfession for the shortest time. Conversely, we hypothesized that intrinsic motivation is less important to software professionals of today than to those of fifteen to twenty years ago, and that among those in the field today, it is least important for those who had been in the profession for the shortest time.We also expected to find that hours of recreational computer use would be positively correlated with intrinsic motivation and negatively correlated with extrinsic motivation.A review of the literature uncovered a number of studies of DPlMIS personnel which showed that they have high growth needs. This indicates that DP/MIS personnel are concerned with intrinsic factors. We found no longitudinal surveys studying the motivation of computer professionals.Analysis of data from studies in 1969-70 and 1972-73 [26, 271 suggested that at the times of these studies intrinsic motivations were more important to software professionals than to the general workforce, and extrinsic motivations less important. However, the numbers of respondents in these studies who were software professionals were so small (three and eight, respectively) that the results are not statistically valid.We designed and carried out a Survey of Software Professionals ("SSP"), obtaining responses from local businesses and through the Usenet worldwide computer network. After analyzing data from the SSP and from the earlier studies we have concluded (1) that the longer a person has been in the software field the less Authors' address:

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