BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13707, 25 March 1908, Page 9

BUSINESS LIFE.

TO TYPISTS. A large majority of those entering the field of shorthand and typing do so with a misconception of its requirements, writes a correspondent who signs herself "Jessie." Shorthand and typewriting allure the young student, because the processes of loarning to make "pot-hooks" and to manipulate the keys ofja. typewriter appeal to their mechanical sense. Many students leave school before they have completed even the grammar grades, under the impression that ff they can master shorthand and typewriting they will be well equipped tor the work. It does not occur to them that those processes are but instruments—the means to an end. To embark upon the work without a thorough grammar school education at least bespeaks a disastrous wreck on the shoals of the English language early in the voyage; the more thorough and broader the education the smoother will be the sailing. THE WORRIER. Worrying is a business of itself and occupies the mind to the exclusion of business of a profitable sort. Along with worry goes pessimism, discouragement, downheartedness, lack of ambition. No man, however energetic', can worry much or long without losing his energy and becoming a quitter. Worry, after causing a man's mental collapse, will spoil his physical health, and the days of a man with mental and physical health gone are numbered in small numbers. If you are worrying over conditions that cannot be altered, you are wasting time. If you are worrying over conditions that can be altered, you are also wasting time; get busy and* alter them. You think you need change? You can get it without a trip to some distant State. Change your habits or occupation. Take up some form of light reading in the evenings. Get interested in some fad or other that will give you a chance to get out of the rut and become enthusiastic about something besides making money or losing it. No man can think constantly about his business without coming too brood over it and worry. Your mind must have rest and recreation. i It needs it just as much as your body does. A simple determination not to worry will not usually be sufficient. There must be a. positive effort along some different line of thought. Besides deciding not to think of the cares, decide that you will think of something olse and find something else to think of. You surely have interests in life other than money making, if you would cultivate them a little. SAGE FINANCIAL SAYINGS. The person who always waits for something to happen, happens to have to wait always. The richer a man gets, the more careful he should be to keep his head level. New fields are opening all the time, and it is necessary to be very, very aggressive. Find the legitimate enterprises, and lay the foundation of your own fortune. Hereafter, men will put their spare money in productive investments. They will look for good returns in business that develops the resources of the nation. Don't try " forlorn hopes." Some men- never fail to pick good investments—by rejecting the bad ones. Don't buy a stock or share which is being advertised as worth a hundred shillings for one. The ability to save means the opportunity of taking advantage of life's chances. Even though an investor may not, regard his certificates of stock as valuable, it is his duty to guard them. He is no prophet. I deem it of the highest importance to impress upon every young man the duty of beginning to save from the moment he commences to earn, be it ever so little.— Marshal Field. There is a moment .'it which action ftitmild be taken. An earlier moment, a later moment; both are wrong. Either opens the door to failure. Prosperity means profit for both parties to a trade. The difference between the spendthrift and the frugal man is that the latter is mastering his habits now, so that they will not he mastering him farther along. Every big fish began life on a small scale. Experience is a grindstone: it is lucky for us if we get brightened by it. and not ground. Wait not for destiny, wait not tit all: This leads to failure's dark and dim morass, Sound thou to alt thy powers a trumpet call.