Evening star., 1917-03-18
Generally Speaking, a Job Is Good
in Proportion to the amount Of
Study Required to Master 1t

YESTERDAY morning, when rode up in the ele-
I vator, the starter was breaking in new elevator
Il boy.
At noon, when went out to lunch, the new boy was
running the car alone He had on uniform, and
starting and stopping with the confidence of vetea an
From apprentice to professional IN couple Of hours
Last week veteran motorman breaking in
youngster On Tuesday and Wednesday the two
the front platform together: Thursday the new
man was operating the car alone.
1t is sight have very often: yet never see it
without feeling of wonder.
What thoughts are in that young fellows head as he
receives his instructions from the gray haired veteran?
How can he fail tc look forward and see in the older
man picture of himself twenty years from now?
He is taking up low paid ob-a job with no future.
Twenty from now he will be Just where he is to-day
only older with grasp the job somewhat less
His experience will count for nothing because is expert
ence that any other gain couple OF days.
He may by walking out strike, force an increase
in his pay of few cents week. But the increase will
not be large. Why?
Because he learned the job IN too days. and IN any
other tmo days the company get penty Of mho mh
learn Just as fast and take the job array from him.
On the same day met in hotel restaurant friend
of mine who has just come back from England after
taking special work in surgery under of the great
est in the world.
He is thirty-one years Old it is fourteen years since
he entered college.
For of those fourteen years he has been in medical
schools, in hospitals and in foreign countries studying
The rest of ushis classmates have been in business
ten years. He has in all that time been able
tirey to support himself Always his education was
coStlHS MN Il iltlle more tnan ne earned
Yet with what result?
He has acquired specialized training such as only
few other men in New York possess.
He will begin his life with income of several thou
sands; he will pay back his educational debts in a
couple of years; in ten years his income will be of
thousands.
1t took him fourteen years to master his profession
But he need have fear OF losing what he has gained
No other displace him. except at The cost Of four
teen gears Of pork.
| have nothing but sympathy for the old man who
finds himself condemned for the rest of his life to no.
account job. But find it hard to be patient when
| young men blithely dancing into jobs with no
future, simply because they too lazy to fit them
selves by study for jobs worth while
Every young in the United States ought read
the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
See with what painful diligence he taught himself to
write good English Watch him, at fourteen, attacking
again the arithmetic that he had three times failed to
pass in school, and conquering it.
See Nlicheangeo, old and blind, still being wheeled
into the great galleries. that he might with his fingers
trace the outlines of the satuarysl true to his fes
MOTTO Ancora; impara- -aStill learning
"fhe gods sell ansAingsls everybody at fair price"
said Emerson, sss
And when said it he eptomzed the philosophy of
Business secssl
The job that the gods sell for two hours training is
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