The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-15
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN--Mo. ]
BY lMOGENE MASON.

- -ouJG nan. YOU HI are just beginning vol career In life. 10" nave %
" started it? A clerk n som office. I suppose. a senosraphe OF sum.
= thing else of the kind. You Ia have a high hi ducauon D' ass
from hat yu havs no other accomplishments -,
1t never struck you to follow up IN trade, dd II! weary I'D
tb.. here is n certain elias of persons for that inc OF work. n mat II +" 0'
of III question for you to engage in anything except office work
The average CLERK is not making moro than ny dollars per monlh =" "s
most. We will say he is from 10 to q years I'D Out o nat n1y oonars no -
o,uuA 20 my for connutaton which amounts to about i've dollars nfty
cents per- month; then his board BILL which varies IN ccordanc with Inc con-
Idutonso Of his home Luncheon will cost from twenty-five 10 nifty cent per oaT
Look at it in another way Suppose he is married. To- ar VII MY oona"
and comfortably? Young nan If you we're wise you woul start oVt
in life by obtaining the knowledge of some trade. 1t would % n o ouioen "a
carry. Start as early as sixteen. an when yu have accomplished It, men,. IL
you feel disposed to york in a Office. you cal do SO with ass. 6ut wi'nout =
you prospects for the future will not be as promising as they would Il
YOU we're able to turn or hand to something e1se. ..
ALLOW me to cite al instance which came personally to my observation. a
bow fifteen years ole started in n Office for fifteen dollars per month. He has
remain there until he dies. WELL after working twenty years he is now e.
ceving seventy donars per month. Does that appear to be sumcientr ecompenss
after III those years? No! What is thu result? If he were discharged tomor-
row he could not obtains another position. for when a person works as long a
this in IN office he gets SO accustomed % thai particular work nat ne 10 IL,
capable of working in an other Office to any degree of satisfaction. and. ms
ouently, he has to AXE III first thing that comes his way. -
10Y look on this matter from thu other side A 10 starts In % learn q
trade. and, after a prescribed number If years, he is u of his time, making
from hree-fftyt to hve donarsp per day. whatever his occupation my De- II this
young mar sticks to his trade don't you suppose he will be worth more than
seventy dollars per month afer twenty years service? In that time he could
he we'll established in business for himself with 10 fear of being discharged Or
laid If. If you are In al Office n o matter how much money o. may have
saved. you cannot buy up the business, nor could you buy out he man higher
M" Yu have simply got to wait you turn, which means years. and years, n
sometimes never. Hence the disadvantage Of being a clerk. with n Their knowi-
edge. 'n
I admit that a few years in a city will broaden the ideas Of a boy or youns
man and be of advantage to him, but anyone going to work In an ONCE without
something back of him will not be al successful Is 10 imagnes. I have heard
say: II vas wrong to put m boys at work In a n once;t mol houl
have mastered some trade" If you have the plumbing trade n TIT ts o III
fingers 1T would lot De as hard for o Ito obtain a position With some wholesale
|plumbmgh ouse al it would for n who had no idea II thu business.
Remember, clerks rave n o rights or o set hours. You stay unity % nnsh1
tradesmen have. and. likewise. everything in this article ponts to heir favor