Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-01-22
stick to your Business.

There is nothing which should be
more frequently impressed upon the
minds of Young men than. t1es iRpors
tance of steadily pursuing one business,
The FREQUENT changing from oaeemploy-
ment to another is one of thenlest com
mon errors committed, and toitmay be
traced more than half the failures OF
men in business, and much oi tie dis
content and disappointment tllak render
life uncomfortable. tits yezz common
thing for man to become satisfed
with his business and to desire chan ge
it for some other, and which seems to
him will prove mere lqerste Employ
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will find among your acquaintances
abundant verifcations of our assertions.
Here is young man who commences
life as a mechanic, but from some cause
imagined he ought to have been doctor;
and, after hasty and shallow prepara-
ton, has taken up the saddie-bags only
to find that work is still work, and that
his patients are no more profitable than
his work bench, and the occupation not
whit more agreeable.
Here are two young men, clerks;
one of them is content, when his first
term of service is over, to continue q
clerk until he shall -baye saved enough
10 commence business on his own ac-
count; the other cannot wait, but starts
without capital, and with limited ex-
perience, and brings up, after few years,
in q court of insolvency, while his for
mer comrade, by patient perseverance,,
comes out at last with a fortune. The
young lawyer who became disheartened
because briefs and cases did not crowd
upon him while he was yet redolent Of
calf bound volumes, and had small use
for rep tape, who concluded he had mis-
taken his calling, and so plunged into
politics, finally settled down in the char
acter of meddiing pettifogger, scram-
bling for 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 contentment mingled
with his industry as anything, though
he is not aware of it-he hears the won
derful stories of California, and how for
tunes may be had for the trouble of pick
ing them up; mortgages his farm to raise
money, goes away to the land of gold,
and, after many months of hard toll,
comes home toeeommence again at the
bottom tho hill FORE nanre. =1ssaary and
less successful climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community
who are notorious for ability, and equal
ly notorious for never getting ahead
and you will usually find them to be
those who never stick to any one bust
ness long, but are always forsaking their
occupations just when it begins to be
profitable.
Young man stick to your business
1t may be you have. mistaken your call
ing. If SO, find it out as quick as posi-
bic and change it; but don't let any IN
easy desire to get along fast, or a dislike
Of your honest calling lead you to aban-
don it. Have some honest calling, and
then stick to it; if you aresticking type,
stick away at them; if you are selling.
oysters, keep on selling them; if you are
at law, hold fast to that profession, pur-
sue the business you have chosen per-
sistently, iudustriously and hopefully,
and if there is anything of you, it will
appear and turn to account in that as
we'll 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 to it the worse it will
''stick' toyou.-Hants Merchants Mag
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