The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-13
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Stick to Your Business,

There is nothing which should be mors
frequently impressed upon the minds Of
young men than the importance Of steadily
pursuing some one business. The frequent
changing from one employment to anoth-
er is one of the most common errors COM
mitted, and to it may be traced more than
half the failures of men In business, and
much of the discomfort and disappoint-
ment that render life uncomfortable. 1t is
a very common thing for man to be dis
satisfied with his business and desire to
change it for some other, which 1t seems
to him will prove more lucrative EN-.
ployment; but in nine cases out of ten it
is a mistake. Look round you and you
will find among your acquaintance
abundant veriication of our assertion.
Here is young man who commenced
life as mechanic, but from some cause
imagined that he ought to have been a
doctor; and after hasty and shallow
preparation he has taken up the saddle
bags only to find that work is still work,
and that his patients are no more profit
able than his work bench, and the occupa-
ton 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 till he
shall have saved 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 a few years IN a court Of insolvency,
while his former comrade, by patient per-
severance, comes out at last with fort
une.
That young lawyer who became dis
hcartencd because briefs and cases did
not crowd upon him while he was vet
rcdolcnt of calf-bound volumes, and had
small use for rcd-tapc, who concluded he
had mistaken his calling, and so plunged
into politics, finally settled down into the
character of middling pettifoggcr,
scrambling for his daily bread.
There is an honest farmer who has
toilcd 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 wonder
full 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 success
tul climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community who
are notorious for ability and equally no.
torious for never getting ahead, and you
will usually find them to be those who
never stick to any one business long, but
are always torsaking their occupation 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
to get along fast or dislike of your hon
est calling lead you to abandon it. Have
some honest occupation, and then stick to
it; if you are sticking types, stick away
at them; if you are selling oysters, keep
on selling them; if you are at law, hold
hold fast to that profession; pursue the
business you have chosen, persistently,
industriously and hopefully, and if there
is anything of you twill appear and turn
to account in that as well as or better than
in any other calling; only, if you are a
loater, forsake that line as speedily as pos
sible, for the longer you stick to it the
worse it will "stick' Scientific
american.