Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-08
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
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;r.-..-s in ~. npmt~rs Of thoss Who coaasod
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m. ..r,..-,- WHICH come before the ehisf
., ~. nrofs-si.a,s grow more painful every
a. .nf !, has become a truism 70 sAy that
=, al vn no starr on professional careers ons-
,h;r,i ..,,, undrrs-th.t il. get sick, die or
-,sv,.ah,r,, barely survive axhting
49, .,,h,,, home of retiring. TO old age,
.,,I ...e-tb,rd ,ns ke decent or comfortable
H,,n., That !. inst the proportion given BY
,hs Lss,,.,i German. and ws fear tho num-
t.r, of the first class are far from having
,s.rn..i rb.,ir limit.
Ths r,psh ca,,sd by the enormously in
ers.s., numbers Of the educated has hardly
80, and ,hsre srs other causes. The de-
ir. for "a life in which ability tells" is In
c,...,, svsu faster than education, and - y
tho ,nd,sr.p-itiou 10 lead the kind Of life, no
dout,t 4 most painful one. which cuisines"
y;,h Insufficient capital involves Caste
feeling. whs.h always feels the professions,
crow, stronger than ever in certain sections
III the community. while. owing at once TO
tho greater accumulation and diffusion OF
wealth. there |. a new pressure into the
ranks of youux men with small fixed incomes,
the class which looks on its gains from work
As supolemeutsry and which all over the
continent keeps down the salaries Of profes-
.ionnl, The,., men all think that they rise
in life by entering the close professions The
price OF psrtnershitn is Tor the same reason
rising. willis, owing to the habit OF postpon-
ing retirements, vacancies grow constantly
fewer; and the system Of jobbing in favor Of
clos, relatives is outside the service OF the
state, more inveterate than ever. Men de-
.cend t. any thing for the sake OF sons-in- law.
Tie prizes, too grow less Democracy
hate, large salaries and thinks all salaries
large, while, though the close professions
make desperate efforts to keep up their stand
ard Of remuneration, it is declining in every
direction The ordinary professional man"
must either take less his connection
gradually slip away.
This diminished chance moreover. is not
accompanied BY any dimnution in the strain
OF life. That increase, every wear with the
increased number of competitors, and with
the ipcessant rise in tine standard OF necessary
requirement, till il snow asserted that hard
" any professional man ...capes serious loss
from any illness which NAV visit him: while
an interruption of SIX months from any
caus. whatever ruins the most promisiii.
HE absent = far Dtt.llularv
ho,s. /, concerned. the dead
This /. not "A pleasing outlook for the new
y,nernti m. which needs money more than
ever P.onla sov ",impicity- increases. and
tho, i ,r,.. i, a sens. but i, is simplicitv
rather il, tbongl,t and in u,etho.ls of expres
son than in tab,t, life. Nothing is chcap
ar .,c.n, tara f,..t rant IN the nr,,fers,o,,al
d;s,r;,ts io,. ,,.t dachne-witu.-, the new
disx,..ia,.l mon If tho sam. orcfe.sion-nud
tb,.r. never was time when il was more i'm.
,.,ativ. a., professional ,..u i,,s, starting To
i.aJ g., ..e.viiiz.slr life meaning m n great
o;,, i. tis., il, which .u, hl,e.ls money fr,,ss,
.,..rv ,.,,,.
wsAr "a 1Hs nEMEpYt
Ev., su,css. has l..,.atoa for prof,ssi,mals
,... ,,u.hls finn II was The Immense. ma
io.;,x az ,h.m ,i.sir,. To sav. and the change
/, ,h..;r ,,.,r,o, II, lin. r,.,sct has t.p.n IS
,ou,d;,g Tina fan in th.. rata Of interest tn
~. o,,,.,n,i covers -verv secure Investment
.xc.n, we h..I,ev. certain Kinds Of housa
nro,sr,v WHICH ii Is a beartbreak to inherit
And which no one with his tim. fully occu.
Mol womb ar could AT tep,pt TO manage proy,-
.rIv Ev,rv on. feels thi. fall. but very few
raai;,a -. mn .xt.u,
T., ,sc1 /, ,xas no.sit,l. far a man w,,hons
workip1 /, obtain ekh,a YEA. for A princinal
Of rtu ,sx, with IN. full,..f s.,,,, ;ty and now
h. /, fortnn,te if with tive same scuritv h,
n ,t,,ins Es,J-a chance. which not only
whtttIes AWAY hi, in,o,n, hut leaves tbe road
chok.-i with cpmpetitors who were the an
n,.al ,,r, duct of s,erpiny money still, i uer
cent would retire nj once That evil II il
Ia. one. Affects m.n IN ta,slness like men in
the pr,,f.s,ions: hut the. ;atte, feel i, more
fer while business NAV Nv. indefinitely ex
n,p,,aI ,ha professional man. ysins are
limited by that great natural fact that
neither energy nor ability will mt more than
,n.nty.f o,r nonrs into one dav
What i, Ike RI m..lyf There is none what.
e,,r 4. tie tre.,,,re increases. the work
mist .,the, H.. div i,iel ar the pric. Of work
IN :, com. ,inyu with in either ,.,s,. re-
duct,on If n-ofe..ion,, iucom, We, i, not
beI.v, Ills, l.. strong ,.,,,s. which, in,r,nss
the tu,ulr., az ,nose entering on a profess
time an Ia ~ THpt''' TO see the great pro-