Choosing Careers

NZ Truth, Issue 946, 12 January 1924, Page 1

Choosing Careers

A great thing m life is being interested m the work one gives one's life to. Just about this time many young fellows, who finished \at school last year, are thiniting about starling work. The question, these young people should answer, if it is their ambition to get anywhere m life, jft' not, "How much will I got?" but "Hqw wilt <\I like the work?" When w.e apply ourselves to work which interests us, our particular dispositions should soon enable us to draw a fair living wage. In these circumstances there is chanCo of advancement. On the other hand, should we.demand. "What is the pay?" "What are the hours?" and m conseV quence accept a position which neither interests nor particularly concerns us, we may as well write ourselves down as the men who don't get there. Without personal .Inconvenience, Qdellty, and a certain amount of sacrifice no man ever did justice to his Jobj and these qualities are non-existent when Interest m the work is dead. That is why every big concern carries workshy loafers and deadbeats. They have easy job-hunters who don't care a continental whether the firm booms or bursts. So they take about as much interest m their work as the back* blockers do In the cities' electric tramways. . '