El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-12
Demand the Best Of Yourself
Too Often Men Put Salnry and
Hours Ahead Of Efficiency and
Do Not Make Progress.
BY Madison C. Peters.

n EFORE any demonstration of
X ability. or any indication is in
timated that the job seeker is
wanted, practically every one seeking
a situation asks: What's the salary ?
How long are the hours?' Thus pre-
| judicing his would-be employer by
showing that the salary and short
/ hours, rather than the opportunity, are
! of most concern.
The practical lesson business and
! other training schools should enforce
/ is this: The quality you can put into
your work determines the salary. It
does more, it determines the quality Of
! your life.
Demand OF Yourself the Best.
Rather demand Of yourself the best.
! and, no matter how small your pay
make the most of your opportunity,
and this spirit. of what you can put
into your work. rather than what you
can get out, determines your failure
or success.
The young man or woman who bag
giles for the maximum salary while
insisting on minimum work, viii be
nuisance in any establishment
There are too many such people. who
ruin all their prospects of success, and
for dollar or two less a week, than
they think they are entitled to, slight
their work and not only defraud their
employer, but cheat themselves.
Dishonest work is stealing, and no
man can do honest work if he thinks
only of how much money he can get out
of the job. instead of how much of his
manhood he can put into it, and thus
raises his salary by increasing his
skill.
increasing Your Asset.
The more valuable you can make your
services to your employer. by superior
work, the bigger an asset you become
and your employer will make more
money out of you the more valuable
you can make yourself to HIM, for
salaries are increased to meet the grow
ing value of men.
In the long run the cream will show
up on top in any establishment. Never
in looking, for a job, ask the salary,
or question the hours, but show that
while you must have all you can get
for start that the opportunity is
what you want. and through it you
mean to enlarge yourself and thus in
crease your salary; that you look upon
a good opportunity as a character
builder, rather. than a mint to coin
money.
Bismarek's start.
Bismarck, who was for 80 years the |
controlling power in European politics (
and whose name is identified with the
unlficatiOn of Germany, began his dip
lomattc career as secretary to the Ger !
man legation in Russia. The salary was I
small, but the opportunity great. Had ]
he just earned his salary, he might have I
held on to a perpetual clerkship. but /
acting upon what every successful man
had always realized, that the largest !
part or good mans pay is out side Of 4
his salary, he set himself to work on !
the secrets of strategy. until through !
his persistent application to the de- 1
tails of diplomacy his services We're /
recognized by the home government }
as more important than that of the /
himself.
Teaches World Lesson.
Bismarck taught the world a lesson !
OF universal experience, that it is not /
clamor and complaining that win, but
learning how to do better work Bis
marck not only learned the secrets of
successful diplomacy, but profited by /