Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-07-14
Mechanics Have Chance
to Enter Business World
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plumbers, painters, printers and cigar
makers.
The other class may be said to in
| clude machinists, metal arch
Itectural iron workers, boot n snoe
work ers. electrical workers, tailors and
wood workers. These are only the
! principal lines of each class, there be-
ing several minor trades which might
he included in one or the other. But
| these are the principal trades oi1efe0
| TO the man who wishes TO learn q craft.
They include In their the greater
| share of skilled laborers In the coun-
try. They are he most important.
Economical Ones Find Opportunity.
! In the first class the plumbers, car
penters, and painters undoubtedly VIII
lead in the number Of men who worked
UP from iourneymen TO become their
| own bosses. This does not mean that
II Is easier 10 get rich in these crafts
! than the others, but that 1t is easier to
get into business in a small way
through them. The reasons are that
little capital is required TO start In
them and that there are always plenty
of small jobs to be picked up that are
beneath the notice or the large CON
| tractors in these lines. The pay in the
! first two is good. In the second 1t Is
not so good, still it should be enough
TO allow the economical worker who
is working with an object in view to
save some money.
That there is q chance for the jour-
neyman to become contractor in these
trades is shown bv the fact that nearly
! all the employers in these lines once
worked for wage at a trade them
! selves. This means that 1t has been
done and can be done again. Ihrough
working at the trades for several years
| the workman becomes acquainted WIFI
the men who have such work to be
done, and often they leave their posi-
tons to work for themselves through
the suggestion of others.
Large Capital a Deterrent.
AS a printer or cigarmaker it will re-
quire more capital to get a start than
in the three trades just mentioned. Still
there are hundreds of men in business
in either of these lines who We're once
day workers. They saved some money
while working and ventured out for
themselves when the opportunity offer
ed. III starts thus made are neces-
sarily small, sometimes for a While
yielding the beginner even less than
the pay earned while at work, but they
are the first steps toward something
bigger.
In the other class of trades here cited
the chances for the worker TO work Z
| of the rut OF the tradesman into some
thing better are nearly nothing. A
tailor may eventually come TO own a
shop of his own, but in this day of
the sweat shop and fierce competition
in this line no one will maintain that
his chances are brilliant.
In the others the conditions that pre-
vail scarcely allow any chance for the
employee 70 become employer. The
business is for the most part in the
hands of men or combines with great
capital, and to compete with capital
requires capital. The man entering a
trade should nave something before
him besides the prospect OF fair wages
and easy work. He should look for
ward, beyond the limited horizon of
the shop, and prepare for the day when
he will be 'in business" for himself.
With this end in view the selection Of
a trade that offers some chance for this.
is of utmost Importance to the begin
ner.