CAREER GIRLS’ AIMS

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 2

CAREER GIRLS’ AIMS

“Don’t be a miss with a mission” is the advice of Mrs Bernice Fitz-Gibbon to young girls setting out on a career. A man with a mission is bad enough, but a miss with a mission is awful, Mrs Fitz-Gibbon writes in an American magazine. “Glamour.” Head of a thriving advertisine agency in the United States, Mrs Fitz-Gibbon a career woman herself, and she has studied the effect of fanatical ambition on the female personality. She is the creator of the famous slogan, “It’s smart to be thrifty,’’ but it is not smart for a girl to have a Messianic gleam in her eye. she says. “You can be ambitious, but it must be relaxed ambition. You must appear to be almost drifting, and you can drift energetically,” she says. “Dogged determination and relentless forging ahead (acceptable in the male on his way up in the business field) simply are not pretty for a woman “Don’t be so dead set on a destination that you cannot savour every bit of the fun along the way. Getting there is all the fun,” Mrs Fitz-Gibbon says. Other points of advice are:— “Don’t be bashful. And don’t be brashful. There’s a happy inbetween. “Don’t get involved in office politics. “Don’t think you’re tired. Fatigue, 'of any kind, is usually boredom. “Don’t ask ‘Where will I go to find out?’ “A famous professor,” says Mrs Fitz-Gibbon,” once startled his students by saying, ‘I know nothing; but, gentlemen, I have learned how to find out anything I might want to know’.”