The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-01
Stick to yOur Business.

There is nothing which should be more frequently
impressed upOE the minds Of young men than the
Importance of steadily pursuing one business. The
frequent changing from one employment to another
is one of the most common errors committed, and to
it may be traced more than half the failures of men
in business, and much of the discomfort and disap-
pOintment that render life uncomfortable. 1t IS q
very common thing for q man to be dissatisfied with
his business, and to desire to change it for some other,
and what seems to him will prove q more lucrative
employment !; but in nine cases out of ten 1t IS a mis-
take. Look round you, and you will find among
your acquaintance abundant verlfcatlon OF our as
sertion.
Here is a young man who commenced life as q me-
chanic, but from some cause imagined that he ought
to have been a doctor and after a hasty and shall
low preparation has taken up the saddle-bags only to
find that work is still work and that his patients are
no more profitable than his workbench, and the
occupation not a whit more agreeable.
Here are two young men, clerks one of them is
content, when his first term of service is over, to con-
tinue q clerk till he shall have saved enough to COM
mence business on his own account the other can
not wait, but starts off without capital and with n
limited experience, and brings up after a few years
in a court of insolvency, while his former comrade,
by patient perseverance,, comes out at last with q
fortune.
That young lawyer who became disheartened be-
cause briefs and cases did not crowd upon him while
he was yet redolent of calfbound volumes, and had
small use for red tape, who concluded that he had
mistaken his calling, and so plunged into politics,
finally settled down into the character of q middling
pettifogger, scrambling for his daily bread.
There is an honest farmer who has tOiled a few
years, got his farm paid for, but does not grow rich
very rapidly, as much for lack of contentment min
gled with his industry as any thing, 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 q more weary and
less successful climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community who are noto-
rious for ability and equally notorious for never get
ting ahead, and you will usually find them to be those
who never stick to any one business long, but are
always forsaking their occupation just when it begins
to be profitable.
Young man, stick to your business. Itmay be you
have mistaken your calling-if so, find it out as quick
as possible and change it but don't let any uneasy
desire to get along fast, or a dislike of your honest
calling lead you to abandon it. Have some honest
calling, and then stick to it if you are sticking
type, stick away at them if you are selling oysters,
keep on selling them if you are at the law, hold fast
to that profession pursue the business you have
chosen, persistently, industriously, 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 a %loafer, forsake that
line of life as quickly as possible, for the longer you
stick to it, the worse it will g stck'' you.-Hunt'S
Merchants yMUgazine.