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This study examined the relationship between pre-school teachers and teacher candidates’ professionally-conscious choices and their attitudes towards the profession. The study includes 200 pre-school teachers and 278 teachers candidates. This work is in the relational scan model. The "Teacher's Career Attitude Scale" was developed by Hard (2006) in order to determine attitudes in the study. The research has shown that pre-school teachers have significant differences in their attitudes towards the profession in terms of their working hours and their professional advances. Teachers and teachers’ attitudes towards the profession are at the middle level. The relationship between the pre-school teacher and teacher candidates make conscious preferences and the low dimension of attitude towards the profession and the total point of attitude is high, positive and meaningful, but in the low dimension of love and harmony, there is a negative, meaningless relationship. The results were discussed in the light of the relevant literature.