The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-18
THE "STENOG''

IF Won have good education Du'
have no special vocation you may
not realize what broad, many-sided
field stenography opens to woman
The Field.
In the first place this is at preseh.
an uncrowded field. First-class ste
nographers with good education are
commanding, good salaries and are
in demand. In the second place ste
biography may be used as c1utci1 W
a wedge by ambitious sHis- ne ne
teacher for instance, who wants TO
find summer work each season does
well to use one summer to- take
thorough steneographic training she
then has no difficulty placing herself
Zach summer. The high school or
college girl who must work her way
through school does well to do the
same.
ar Constant demands during the
summer, for substitutes to take the
place of regular stenographers VINO
are on their vacations This suhsu-
tute work usually pays very wen.
Many stenographers who are am
bilious use their training as wedge
to get into the field that appeals to
them. By acting as secretary or So
nographer in INVESTMENT pan i,6
advertising organizations a girl ire
! uuentIy has opportunity to get
; thorough knowledge of the details OF
. the business. BY making study OF
of advertising, or whatever the nelo
! she is dealing with, a girl not only
makes herself more valuable to her
employer but may turn what other
wise would be monotoneus work into
! very valuable experience for herself
| Stenographers frequently come to
the Public Employment Service ana
request to be notified of any opening
in these special fields simply because
/ they kno wthat in this way they can
secure the business knowledge and
training they need to succeed
], prominent Judge recently ad-
vised students who intend to become
- LAWYERS to use a summer in their
first years of high school to take a
thorough course in stenography as
this would enable them to get work
in law offices every summer and give
them the most valuable training and
experience they could possibly get in
preparing for their profession.
Qualifications.
= If YOU are am bilious and are going
to be a stenographer get the best ed
l,rstior you possibly can Few en-
ployers want senographers under IS.
Go through high school by all means.
If YOU are forced to leave school sc
to night school. Then select your
business course with the greatest
care. A poor training is almost
worse than none at all Business col
leges very greatly in their standards
Be sure before you pay big tuition
fee that you know what the public
schools offer free of charge in COM
mercial courses.
The things that will put your sal
airy ahead are good general educa-
J ton. training in English. spellir
punctuation, the Inclination to be az
crrate- and neat the ability to hold
words in memory, and business like
: habits.
A training in stenograhpy viii
never handicap the ambitious, cap
. bic girl with executive ability. Wo
, men holding such important position:
Y as the women doing merchandising
{. research work for The Bush Termina
j Co., and women on good sa1arie:
travelling for the Department of La
Dor. all have their typewriters il
& their rooms at the hotel.
t AS for salary, many good steno
r graphers are now drawing higheI
e salaries than some of the women do
! ing executive work. Young workers
who have little experience with die
n tation are being started at about 81;
Il a month. Women with experience
T are drawing from Sis to $3.50
r month and up