Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-21
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LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT.

LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT.
There is hardly any large establish
ment of any kind-whether it be
newspaper Office, mandatory or
trade establshment-that has not ap-
plications constantly from young men
who want something to do. 1t is often
painful to see the hopeless look of the
applicants faces as they turn away
disappointed and the scene becomes
more painful when it is reflected that
many of them doubtless have capacity
for remunerative work, and would
faithfully attend to it if they had the
chance.
The truth is that the world is slow
to take any man entirely on trust.
The greatest singers, the greatest paint
ers, the greatest writers, have had to
convince the world that it had need
of them before it was willing to
give them subsistence. So true is
this that it might also be laid down as
an axiom of success that is only to be
Won by hard struggle. 1t takes the
attrition of poverty to bring out what
is brightest in man. 1t may be hard
ship, but it seems to be law of social
economy, and, being law, it must
have justice and compensation in it
somewhere.
The question of "getting position
resolves itself into two grand essen
tials-first, proficiency of some sort,
which stands for dollars and cents in
the worlds market-place; and next,
tact to demonstrate this proficiency in
q way to attract the worlds attention.
1t is q mistake to depend on Gin
fuence" to get work in a legimate call
ing; influence belongs more properly
to the domain of politics. AS a rule,
too, it is mistake to ask or to expect
employment on the ground of chari-
ty-not that charity and business are
incompatible, but that each should
stand on it's own bottom. The best
recommendation is sample of your
work; that, with frank address and
neatness of appearance-for "the ap-
paral oft proclaims the man"-may
often prove the "open sesame" to
success.
While it is good to have due appre-
citation of ones abilities, it is not good
to be too exacting as to the field for
their display. The distance betwixt
the foot of ladder and the top is but
a short span TO him who has within
himself the power of rising.
1t is another resquite of the success
full worker that he sail be in love with
his work. If he is a machanic, he will
take pride in his tools; if he is book
keeper, he will plume himself on the
merits of his pen, and on the neatness
and forwardness of his accounts. Juli-
an Hawthorne counts among the pleas
ures of his authorship the satisfaction
got from good writing materials. AS
the late Colonel Forney once said to
youthful member of his staff: "a man
must work con amore to have his
work worth anything"
A young lady who wished place as
typewriter got it in common-sense
way. She wrote out half dozen "re-
plies" so to speak-brief, business-like,
and respectful--setting forth her expert
ence, qualifications, and ideas as to
pay, putting her figures rather above
the market rate. Next morning there
were four advertisements for. type
writer's in the papers. She promptly
mailed her four replies directly at the
mail-ullicc, enclosing two-cents stamp
in each. One of the four shots brought
down her bird. That evening her posi-
ton came to her by mail.
1t is not true that the world is bet
ter market for muscle than for brains.
The difficulty is that brain matter,
whatever its native brightness, is prac-
tically worthless without training and
experience. For one play produced by
a manager, thousand are rejected.
The accepted one may be inferior in
many respects to many a rejected one;
may have less talent in it; but it is
from trained head, and suits the
managers want, and that is enough.
1t is so with story writing, with head
work of every kind. Suitability is the
quality that gives it pecuniary value.
Men and women who with certain
brilliant qualities fail to realize this
truth, often fancy that the conditions
of success are hard and limited. Yet
theatrical managers, magazine publish
ers, and many others, are subject to
the very same law themselves.
Finally, it is not necessary that a
want should be proclaimed in order to
exist. Sometimes it may even be Gre
ated. Whoever can create want for
his wares or his work is on the way to
masterful success.
The philosophy of success in life is
not whit changed from what was in
"Poor Richards" day. His homely old
maxim of industry and thrift-which
he quantity admits that he himself
found difficult to practice-have not
been outlawed by the lapse of years.
There is an impression that oportuni-
ties for individual success are being
restricted nowadays and overshadowed
by corporations. TO some extent, and
temporarily, this may be true, but cor
porations in turn are dependent on the
intellectual and moral qualities that
insure individual success, and these
can no more be dispensed with than
manual labor can be superseded by
multiplication of machinery.