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Show TMBS BUSINESS j& i job near at hand and doing it as well as you can usually opens the door to something better. $15 a Week 4 Once, long ago, times were bad and I lost my job. I would have lost it, that is, but something told me to hang on. I asked for any job there was, and they put v me to work filling cards at $15 a week. It hurt my pride. I had to bring my lunch and postpone any new clothes. But I got along. And that job was fun. On every card was the name of a town and I knew lots of those towns. I had driven driv-en across the country and I had eaten or slept in many of them. "Wallace, Idaho," I'd think. "That's where we had that wonderful won-derful meal." Or "Manhattan, Kans. They were having Chautauqua Chau-tauqua there." By making a game of a very dull task the days passed quickly. quick-ly. And because I was on the spot I got a good job again when a need suddenly arose. It isn't always possible to work out like that. But doing the |