Show L I Finding Your Place k I By JOHN BLAKE SLAKE There Is some one thing that ever every one can do o better than anything else As soon a ate as a gang gatig of ot day laborers is organized organize the he boss watches them to find out which are best fitted for tor the different divisions of manual toiLSome toil Some u use e picks better than they do shovels Some display the sort of intelligence which enables en- en bles ables them to become straw bosses responsible not only for tor their own wor work but for those of three or 01 four our other men who work with them Still others are clever CleVel with their hands which hands which really eally means that they think while they work These can do the work that requires more skill In a week weel the gang is working well together each man doing what he can do best All industrial life is organized In the same saml Va way except that It is so complex that it takes years to tit Cit it each person into the Job that suits him best That Is now the special work worl of of colleges and training raining schools and schools and the most difficult work work they have to do No one has lived Jived beyond 20 or so or mixed with non lien who has not s seen n the evil results of misfits misfits' in n life fan l Many men are arc in the ministry who are without all arty faculty of ot persuasion and are wholly unable to o interest their congregations in the importance of or leading more thoughtful and more rell religious ious lives Many doctors would bo better bettor behind counters and cr very cry often orten th the people who are behind counters would have done better in professional life liCe As a rule the man who hates his job is the theman theman theman man who Is not fitted for it Others working beside him do more work with ess tess effort The They get the promotions and are arc more highly esteemed esteem IJ d b by the their 1 employers Sometimes the they find the work worl that fits its them b by accident but not often Accidents happen but the fact tact that the they attract attention shows that they are out of oC the ordinary As a rule young men and young oung women who like their jobs ma made e a special effort to get that particular lar ar kind of a job It is not necessary to have an overwhelming de desire desire de- de sire for some particular l kind ind of work as painters do So for fOl making pictures and musicians for Sor or playing and composing But almost everyone c Is interested in in in- some special cial thing nore than In anything else If Ie the business of ot selling attracts one one is wasting time in any job that is not a 8 selling job If one seems to have hae a D. natural understanding of oC machinery one ine ought to go to work in a machine chine shop or some other mechanical institution and work there till tin one can get enough mOne money to give gl oneself an engin engineering ring course coUrseS If Jr one is a good talker fond of argument and capable of impressing others with opinions the law lawIs lawis lawis is the place for such a person Th There re is a great deal of ot wasted motion ol and lost energy in the world because so many people are trying pathetically hard to do wh what t they were never meant to do I Copyright 1926 b by the Bell Syndicate Inc A. A |