The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-12
Stick To Job And Win Success
 In End
By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB

A FRIEND of mine advertised for A help during the week for her
 country place, for both a man and woman. There was a great re- sponse-that is, in numbers.
 At the end of it all, summed up, the situation is something like this, she told me their big difficulties is not being able to stick to their jobs. They fit from one place to another, thinking they will bet ter themselves, and in the end find that they have only changed faces with em- ployers.
 .'As one, woman put it, I'm so tired going from one place to another that don't care what the work is. am going to stay put for while anyway.
 She made this statement in com menting on the various kinds of duties that were confronting her. This work CT then continued something on this line :,1s
 T don't care to what place you go. you will always find something about it that you do not like, or something that you have to put up with that may be distastefnl. It is rare indeed that everything around you is suited to your wishes.
 Il have left this or that place for different reasons, thinking that I could get Something better than I had, but always I found the same difficulties confronting me of meeting the job as found it and sticking it out.
 After alL,' my friend concluded, T pay special attention to the person who has worked for considerable length of time, as against the one who has had many jobs. I always reason that. one who is forever. dissatisfied has little of stability of character and pa tience required to be of real service"
 Of course, it does happen that per- son has a run of i'll luck in his jobs. He goes to various places before he will strike one in which he finds himself fairly satisfied and contented. So. that occasionally the length of experience does not always constitute the criterion of worthy worker.
 As, q general thing, when a person has lived with family or has been in a particular place for three or+four years, you know he could not have held that place or continued working there unless he had been capable of holding it, and it is good for the work CT to analyze for himself just what are these clements in his makeup that make it possible for him to hold on un- til he has really proved his efficiency.
 Some of the questions that might come to one who has failed consid- erably in landing just what he wants to do, might be, s'Are you willing to take orders ?''
 Tn the first place, no person can ever get to the position of giving orders if he cannot take them. Certainly there is often, the gruff employer who will give orders sn a dictatorial and offen- siye ways Perhaps this self-same em- ployer may mean well and may do a great deal to help his employees in other ways, and if this is true, maybe the br1squesness of giving orders might well De overlooked in weighing the other qualities such an employer might pos sess.
 Then there might be the question of, Do you take your work in the right spirit?"
 Sometimes one is asked to do a men ial thing and he likes to assert that he was not hired to do that sort of work or he thinks himself above doing it.
 As wise soul has said, If you do not do any more than you are paid for you are never paid for any more than you do"
 Not long ago helped secure a job for a man who usually worked as a butler. He was to be waiter in a flrst-class hotel restaurant. I thought this would tide him over, because he did not have cent in the world.
 After he had worked in this hotel for two days he left, saying that it was beneath his dignity to be that kind of waiter" that he did not mind waiting on nice private families but he did not want to wait on people in a public place and then he asked me to lend him some money to keep him for week while he was looking for another job.
 This, of course, is bad judgment and false pride. After all, there must be somebody for every kind of work. If you cannot help yourself in one, take a lower job until you can get up, rather, than be dependent on some one else.
 Ah, yes, one of the biggest jobs is the ability to stick to your job until you can better yourself. It is the one qual- ity that is worth cultivating.