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Show ILMlLE(CAmiE Learn Your Job SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO Miss Gertrude Hunter, Chattanooga, Tenn., went to work for a man who had the reputation of being be-ing the hardest man in the city to work for. She didn't know about his reputation at that time, but she soon heard about it from numerous num-erous employees who had been working for the company for some time. When she realized that she had walked into a hard job, she had to ask herself if she were going to be able to hold the job down. After considering consider-ing the good features to be derived from working work-ing for the company she told herself "to get busy and make good on that job." Then she set out to learn more about the job than anybody else in the building; she reviewed what little knowledge knowl-edge she had of curves, angles, degrees and minutes, min-utes, of which most of her dictation was com-Dosed: com-Dosed: she brushed up on her shorthand, and gave jier job first place in her life. Carnegie Her boss, a well educated westerner, expected things to be done NOW. Before coming to this city he was owner and operator of a business college, and he never hesitated to say that there was no excuse for a girl not turning out LETTER-PERFECT work. He traveled a hard road and he was hard on his employees. em-ployees. When he would say "bring your notebook" she would ' reach for it and utter a silent prayer that he would not be able to detect how she was trembling while taking his dictation. But before be-fore long he and she together were turning out more certificates than any other examiner and stenographer in the whole office. He was vice-president of the company when she went to work for him, but in a few years he became president, and she a uKrstarv instead cA a stenoBranher. She is srlad she staved on. and ' now if a young, timid stenographer asks her "How to conquer fear" with respect to a job, she advises "Learn more about your job than anyone else in the office, and then what you dare to dream, dare to do." |