Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-07
Whole No. 1886.

l STICK TO YOUR BUsINEss.-There is nothing which should be more frequently impressed upon the minds of young men than the importance of steadily pur- | suing some one business. The frequent changing from one employment to another is one of the most i common errors committed, and to it may be traced more than half the failures of men in business, and much of the discontent and disappointment that render life uncomfortable. It is a very common thing for man to be dissatisfied with his business, and to desire to change it for other and what seems to him will prove a more lucrative employ. ment but in nine cases out of ten 1t Is mistake. | Look round you, and you will find among your ac- quantances abundant verifcation of our assertion. Here is young man who commenced life as q mechanic. but from some cause imagined that lie ought to have been doctor and after nasty and shallow preparation, has taken up the saddle bags only to find that work is still work and that his pa tents are no more profitable than his workbench. l and the occupation not whit more agreeable 1 Here are two young men, clerks one of them is content, when his first term of service is over, to continue clerk till he shall have saved money l enough to commence business on his own account the other can't wait but starts off without capital and with limited experience, and brings up after few years in court of insolvency while his former comrae, by patient perseverance, comes out ct last | with fortune. sl- That young lawyer who became disheartened be- cause briefs and did not crowd upon him while he yet redolent of calf-bound volumes. and had small use for rcd tape, who concluded that he had mistaken his calling, and plunged into politics,
 
 pettifogger, scrambling for his daily bread. l 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 min gled with his indnstay anything, though hes not aware of ithe hears the wonderful stofi of Cali forna, 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 toil c,mes home to C. ,mmencc again at the bottom of the hill for more weary and | les successful climbing up again.
 | Mark the men in every community who are noto. rlous for ability and equally notorious for never get ting ahead, and you will usually find them to he 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 It may bs you have mistaken your calling-if so find it out 70 quick as possible and change it; but don't let any
 uneasy desires to get along fast or dislike of your honest calling lead you to abandon it. Have some honest occupation and then stick to it if you are sticking type stick away at them if you arc selling oysters keep on selling them if you are at the law, hold fast tc that profession ; pursue the business | yeti have chosen, consistently, industriously and hopefully, and if there is anything of you it will an- pear and turn to account in that as we'll or better than in any other calling; only if you are a nafer, foTsake that line of life as speedily as possible for the longer you stick to it the worse it will stick' | to you.--kunfs Merchants Magazine