Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-25
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STICK TO YOUR BUSINESS.

STICK TO YOUR BUSINESS.
There is nothing which should be more
frequently impressed upon the minds of
young men than the Importance of steadily
pursuing one business. The frequent chan
ging from one employment to another is one
of the most common errors committed, and
to it may be traced more than half the fail
ures of men in business and much of the dis
content and disappointment that render life
uncomfortable. 1t is very common thing
for man to be dissatisfied with his business,
and to desire to change it for some other, and
what seems to him will prove more lucra-
tive employment; but in niue cases out of
ten it is a mistake. Look round you, and
you will find among your acquaintance a.
bundant verifcation of our assertion. Here
is a young man who commenced life as me-
chauic, but from some cause imagined that
he ought to have been doctor; and, after
hasty and shallow preparation, has taken up
the saddle bags only to find that work is still
work, aud that his patients are no more
profitable than his workbench, and the oc-
cupation not whit more agreeable.
Here are two young men, clerks; one of
them is content, when his first term of SER
vice is over, to continue clerk until nc
shall have saved enough to commence busi-
ness on his own account; the other cannot
wait, but starts without capital, and within
limited experience, and brings up, after
few years, in court of insolvency, while his
former comrade, by patient perseverance,
comes out at last with a fortune. That
young lawyer who became disbeartcncd be-
cause briefs and cases did not crowd upon
hm while he WIS yet redolcnt Of calf-bound
volumes, and had small Use for rcd tape, who
concluded he had mistaken his calling, and
so plunged into politics, finally settled down
into the character of a mcddling pettifogger,
scambling for his daily bread.
There is an honest farmer who has toiled
few years, got his farm paid for, but does
not grow rich very rapidly, as much for lack
of contcntmcnt mingled with his industry as
anything, though he is not aware of it-he
hears the wonderful stories of California,
and how fortunes may be had for the trouble
of picking them up; mortgages his farm to
raise money, goes away to the land OF gold,
and. after many months of hard toll, comes
home to commence again at the bottom of
the hill for a more weary and less success
full climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community who
arc notorious for ability, and equally noto-
r;ous for never getting ahead, and you will
usually find them to be those who never
stick to any one business long, but are always
fursakiug their occupation just when it be
gins TO be profitable.
Young man, stick to your business. 1t
may be you have mistaken your calling. If
50, find it out IS quick as possible, and
change it; but don't let any uneasy desire to
get along fast, ora dislike your honest cal
ling, lead you to abandon it. Have some
honest calling, and then stick TO it; if you
ere sticking type, stick away at them; if you
arc selling oysters, keep on selling them; if
you arc at law, hold fast to that profession;
pursue the business you have chosen; per-
sistcnt!y, industriousy, and hopefully, and
if there is anything of you, it will appear
and turn to account in that as well or better,
than in any other calling; only, if you are
loafer, forsake that line Of life as quickly as
possible, for the longer you stick 70 it, the
worse it will "stick" to you.-Hunts Aer-
chants Mnyaahc.