The Washington times., 1918-06-03

-vHAT makes It 30 hard for the
w sweet girl EradaAte rom ON
w business school to get her
first job7 Thousands Of her kind
feel ready to tackle a hiEh-sAiArisd
Job in = few weekA but the disiHu-
sIonments and discouragemshtg win
be many, and the ysarB long before
she achieves her ambition 49,
It will take the average bu4inss1
school graduate many ysarsrto dis..
cover why she had to StrugElt -
hard At the beginning, why u VA
90 hard for her to make good ~
The nrst and heaviest handieap
which the young business woman
brings with her into the commercial
world IL her own mental attitude
she has the get rather than tbs
give" giaWpoint. Her mind q uSu-
ally filled with tales Of girlB Who
now earn big salaries. doing exact
ly the same kind Of work for which
she same kind OF work for Whieh
she Is trained.
She knows she is Just a. clever,
and Of course she expects to achieve
to get a good. refined Job that pays
well and offers lots Of adEanesment
Eomstimes she compromiGes . BIT
and in eonventionaily Wordsd let.
tsrs Of application announces that
she IL temporarily Indifferent to
the amount OF pay she win receive,
but she Is insistent that there b
plenty Of opportunity for GdVAnes-
menE"
hope Il win not discourage any
one to realize that opportunity for
RdVAneement'' isn't packed away in
the hlss of every business waiting
fer an smploye TO pick It out When
q hFm promises plenty Of oppor-
tunity for advancement" Il usually
means that thore are plenty OF op-
portunities waiting for advance
msnt and that you have to be alert
and alive to capture your share In
the grand scramble.
On the other hand. some Of the
best opportunities didn't exist at
all. but were created by the 'thlnk-
capacity Of an smplOys who de-
VSloped = bTHnd-neW ida
And this lsGds on TO the 8oeohd
point which 10 the great handicap
Of the young business woman That
Il her mental indifference to busi-
ness A wise man once told me that
the greatest prod 10 advancement In
life is mental curiosity. Business
iS an Illuminating proof Of this idea,
for Al around uB We see advancing
men and women who have been
mentally curious and have inVsBti-
gated and studied and experimental
more and more, until they developed
= new plan and launched themselves
guGeeBBWard.
For business womSn are suri0u
shout investigating deeply iHte
their work and Int business Gon-
F=ally. And only those women Suo-
coed Who are mentally euriouS-WhS
read books take advanced courses,
Join clubs for business contact just
Is mSn 90. VOEy few Of the schools
that turn out business graduates ln"
GtilI into the minds Of these Eradu-
Rtsa the meaning Of buHnssA
To some Of these girls bud-
nsss" means BtsneGraphy and type
writing. and they ere not interested
In anything else, for aid they not
study these arts In order % saIA
money IN buainOsBf What good viii
& DO them TO learn anything elssI
Every mn and every woman IN
business has ths same experience II
ErsateF or IOss degree ~ the be-
ginning, full Of the get" Rtutuda'
they demand and expect certain re-
wards from businosL They're dole
fully dIGappointed when thhss re-
wards are not forthcoming But ~
soon as they respond TO the EpuE Of
mental euFloGlty-Aa soon a. they
begin to study businasS mors deep
Iy and to develop come distinctive
SrpertnssS-theiT attitude changes
uheonBciOusly.
They begin to have the give At
tituds-they have SOnSthinE to effsT
At the Ghrins Of business. and buEi-
ness rewards them In oold-bloodad
but honestly businssg-liks fashion.
Fe sum up. these are the hrisf
eeunssls 70 the sweet business girl
rraduatesi Mako your business
course the foundation Of further
business study, Develop the f'giVs"
rather than the GET attitude to-
ward business. Get busy creating
an opportunity through your
think" capAcity-Gnd ySuT pay win
taka care Of ItSelfl