Career, What Career?

Now Hiring..... Someone who is competent to take charge of any department in a publishing house. Will except a professorship in any of the academies. Experience helpful, but not required.... Wages according to experience, no phone calls please.

Your talent is your call. Your legitimate destiny speaks in itself and in your character. If you have found your place, your occupation has the consent of every faculty of your being. If possible, choose that occupation which focuses the largest amount of your experience of tastes. You will then not only have a congenial vocation, but also will utilize largely your skill and business knowledge, which is your true capital.

Follow your qualifications. You can not fight successfully against your aspirations. Parents, friends, or misfortune may stifle and suppress the longings of the heart, by compelling you to perform unwelcome tasks. Beware of a talent which you can't practice into perfection. Nature hates all botched and half-finished work, and will pronounce her curse. When you are out of work, take the first respectable job that comes your way, heeding no the disproportion between your faculties and your task. If you put your mind into your labor, you will soon be given something better to do.

A man or woman's business does more to make him than anything else. it hardens his muscles, strengthens his body, quickens his blood, sharpens the mind, corrects his judgment, wakes up his inventive genius and puts his wits to work to start him or her on the race for life. This arouses the ambition, make his feel that his a man or woman and must fill the shoes as such, do the work, and bear a part in life. no one feels themselves who is not doing their part. One without employment is not whole, some would say.

A hundred and twenty pounds of bones and muscles does make an individual in one degree or another. Go at it is the first requisite for self success. Sticking to it is the second. Under ordinary circumstances, and with practical and common sense to guide one self, one who has these requisites will not fail.

Don't wait for a higher position for a larger salary. Enlarge the position you already occupy; put originality of method into it. Fill it as it never was filled prior to you. Be more prompt, more energetic, more thorough, and polite than your predecessor. Study your profession, devise new modes of operation, and be able to give your employer something to be proud of and will want to talk highly of in your absence. The art lies not only in giving satisfaction merely, not in simply filling your place, but in doing a far better job than was expected, and the reward will be a better place and a larger salary.

This question of a right aim in life has become exceedingly perplexing in our complicated age. It is not a difficult problem to solve. In choosing an occupation, do not ask yourself how you can make the most money or gain the most notoriety,choose that work which will call out all your powers and develop your adulthood into the greatest strength and symmetry. Not money, not notoriety, not even fame, but power is what you want. Adulthood is greater than wealth, grander than fame, character is greater than any career. Each faculty must be educated, and any deficiency in its training will appear in whatever you choose.