The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-15
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 If ycu are hanging to limb. and in danger of falling, it would be bad policy to locse your hold on that limb in the hope that you might catch a stronger one. You might fall to catch the expected support and so come down with the proverbiai dull thud in a recent article in McClure's Maga- zine, the position is taken that a man of forty-hye or fifty years of age commits a sort of suicide if he gives up a job under the hope that he may get something better
 This leads The New Bedford Stand- ard to moralize and its reflections are worthy of attention. "It is safe rule" The Standard says ''to have the new. position assured, before giving up the old A nervous. unsettled feel ing is very apt to creep over one with the realization that youth is gone. and an uneasy questioning begin as to whether one Is so fixed as to be en- sured permanence in his place as the years go rn, with adequate returns to guarantee comfort in old age. Whsn one is young and strong ani full of fire, old age seems very far away and the present seems all important, If that is easy and pleasant, the essential requirement. of life may seem to have been met; but when one Is no longer young. the physical and economic as- poets of old age press heavily long before 1t itself approaches. and the careless attitude towards the business chance changes to one of eager lsng- ing to achieve rank and fortune. Then may come the uneasy casting about for a better place that, unless 1t is based upon real worth and trainins may possibly lead to some mistake in judgment in making a change. If one is sure of his ability, ferty-five Is as gocd an age to undertake new work as twenty only 1t will be well to be quite sure that unrest Is not be mistaken for ability. In the years of so-called middle age. a firm grasp upcn self is necessary to the maintenance of poise at a time when one is inevitably forced to a ccnrem- plation simultaneously of the mistakes of the past and the prospects of the future
 These remarks are well worth read ing and reflecting on. and a proper observance of the argument might save many worthy men from finding themselves out of a job and unable te get one. When an employee young or his head that the business can't get along without him. and that there fore he may do pretty much as he pleases, he is riding to fall. He will be surprised, after he has been turned out, to find that there has been no catacIysm. no bankruptcy proceedings. and no stoppage of the business. Then we will see that he lacked very much of being the whole thing.
 It is much the same with the man who gives up his job under the be- lief that he can easily get a better one In. this obusy,a hnstling age of competition there are always more applicants than there are vacant posi- tions. and the better the position the greater will be the number of men chasing it. When the Savior sald: ''The harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few" He was not de- scribinE a condition of affairs that now obtains in our commercial and industrial life. fer it is very much the other way at present. Looking on men of all occupations who work for wages CT salaries as "lab9rers," and positions to be filled as "the harvest" 1t will be found that labcrers are plenteous and often the crop to he harvested is scant. In short, it Is not safe to abandon even a moders teIy good jcb before making sure that an- other is ready