The desire to secure jobs characterized with creative character of work and celling for a higher level of educational reflects a high level of needs and aspirations and represents a permanent feature in the system of values shaped by socio-economic conditions of our society. In this article the author discusses researches carried out among militiamen, which revealed that parents wish to secure for their children an educational background one level higher than the one possessed by them. A decisive majority of town militiamen value highly those professions which call for academic background while giving simultaneously their distinct preference to technical courses preparing engineers. Research findings also show that quite a big share of respondents would like the son to continue the profession of the father which testifies to a positive relation to the performed work. In this area there could be discovered clear differences in assessment of own work as provided by militiamen in comparison with results of other researches carried out in other professional environments. Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej naukę.