Show 1 I I II UNCOMMON SENSE II By JOHN BLAKE I The Game of Work I i I And Amy game same to the beginner J Is s wearisome Gok Goi football bridge all bridge all when t undertaken seem seem too tuo difficult to master Bui Buc after a few days when the thc player discovers discover I that he ho really is acquiring a little skill all these I games carnes become fascinating I After that the difficulty diffIcult is in ke keeping pin them from II interfering with ones one's work I The same thing thil applies to almost every ery calling under the sun I I The future captain of finance finan e soon gets tired l I of copying figures from one boo another which he must do in his Job as a bankers banker's ers er's or on brokers broker's I clerk x But pretty soon he learns what those figures mean and sees the romance and the possibilities of ot otI I business reflected in them I After that if it he has real t talent ilent for finance he heI I would rather play with figures es than with a a. brassie or a bridge deck One of the great difficulties which toung young oung people experience in in choosing a calling is is' is that all aU callings i seem tremendously hard at first s To the outsider it is Impossible to see Beyond the years of drudgery that must be performed before he can cast take any real leal part partin in the professIon his parents desire him to take up The J boy O in the lawyers lawyer's office gets tired of ot lookIng look look- I Ing up ref r references f which he must supply to someone i els else who wants them in preparing a case I The beginner In engineering sees nothing ahead j but years of f carrying carrying a chain o worse than that I J I swinging an axe to clear a path down w which the I transit can be sighted There are few jobs In life Ufe that seem interesting interesting- at fir first t. t But just as as as' the golfer gotter becomes an enthusiast as soon as he has got ot off his first long drive so does the apprentice in any calling discover its fas fascination j I when he finds that he can really do something In It H. I I r. r know of a boy who twenty years ag ago went Into the real estate business and nd hated it energetically I for the first two years Then he sold a house and got gota a commission rom From that time forward he thought about little I else than looking for opportunities to sell other houses louses and get other commissions I II I Last week I read that he had put up a million dollar apartment house to add t td a series serie of them which he has built In a thriving suburb I I I Today he lie hires men to get commissions for him But every now a and d then he goes and gets a big bigone bigone one himself just to keep in practice You v will ill ne er never find a man who is making a big bigi bIgI I go o of out t of his business who has not learned to i prefer that bus business ness to an any other occupation on onearth I I earth But ut one must have or develop a love for them themI j I or he will be only more or less of of a parasite in ini i them throughout his life I I Copyright 1924 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |