The Nevada Democrat., 1857-01-28
sick to Yonr business.

There is nothing which should be more fire.
quently impressed upon the minds of young men
than the importance of steadily pursuing one
business. The frequent changing from one en-
ployment 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 disappointment that
render life uncomfortable. 1t is very COM
mon 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 q more
lucrative employment; but in nine cases out of
ten, is a mistake Look roundyou, and you will
find among your acquaintances abundant vert-
cation of our assertion. Here is young man
who commenced life as mechanic, but, from
some cause imagined that he ought to have been
doctor; and, after hasty and shallow prepa-
ration, has taken up the saddle-bags only yto find
that work is still work and that his patients are
not 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 clerk until he shall have enough
saved to commence business on his own account:
the other cannot wait, but starts with capi-
tai, and without a limited experience, and brings
up, after few years, in court of insolvency,
while his former comrade, by patient persever-
ance, comes out at last with O fortune. That
young lawyer who became disheartened because
briefs and cases did not crowd upon him while
he was vet redolent of calf-bound volumes, and
had small use for red tape, who concluded he
had mistaken his calling and so plunged into
politics, finally settled down into the character
of meddling pettifogger, scrambling for his
daily bread.
There is an honest farmer who has toiled q
few years, got his farm paid for, but does not
grow rich very rapidly as much for lack of con.
tentment mingled with his industry as anything
| though he is not aware of it-he hears the won.
derful 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 more weary and less sue
cessful climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community who are
notorious for ability, and equally notorious fol
never getting ahead, and you will usually fine
them to be those who never stick to one bust
ness long but are always forsaking their occu-
patton just when it begins to be profitable.
| Young man, stick to your business. 1t may
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 get along fast, or
dislike of your honest calling lead you to
abandon it; if you are sticking type, stick away
at them; if you are selling oysters, keep on sell
ing them; if you are at law, hold fast to that
profession; pursue the business you have chosen,
persistently, indusriously, and hopefully, and if
there is anything Of you, it will appear and turn
to account in that as well or better than 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'
to you.--Hints Merchants Magazine.