Career Counseling and Vocational Designing, from the Origins to the End of the Last Century: The Moment of Maximum Possibilities

When preparing this chapter, we thought about the stories of people who stood out in culture, sports, arts, show business, science, politics. People who gave a large contribution to the above-mentioned fields, and they experienced levels of satisfaction, recently described by a colleague in a volume (Scandella, 2019). When reading those professional life stories and looking also at other narrations of people that today are between 50 and 70 years old, we thought that it is quite possible that these stories revolve around the pairing of interests and abilities, and are often the result of unintentional initiatives of different actors, belonging to family, social and working contexts.