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Show WHAT GIRLS MAY DO. in a publication devoted to the interests in-terests of young men starting in business busi-ness I found a bit of advice that seems to me worth thinking over, for today what is good for the gander is good for the goose. Don't be so anxious to get into business as to accept the first Job that offers Itself," was the theme of j the discourse You run a big risk of i tvlng vourself down to a routine that will leave you no opportunity for self-improvement and advancement. advance-ment. You ought to know by the llrae you are twenty-five what worfc vou want to do as a life job; but up to that time you should hold yourself In readiness to change your occupation, occupa-tion, and the oftener you change the better, so that the changes are such a6 to widen your experience and j our ability The girl who spends the first four or five vears of her business eareor In acquiring a wide experience of people anJ 6t llfo in Rf'nprn1' wh" ! learns how to look at things from many sides, who has worked In different dif-ferent cities under arlous employ, erg, that girl, provided she uhhs those years as part of her education, part Of her stock in trade, I Kolng to be i Infintely more valuable In what-i ever business position she nettles In-lO In-lO than her stay-at-home slBtor who ; has fituck to the first Job she grabbed when she left high school and followed the fame dull routine week In and week out. One thing you get in changing your job to another in a new office Is perspective. You ran look at it. and yourself in it, from the outside. And then you can measure yourself in your new place by what you were in tho old ono The trouble with too many of 119 is that we don't really know how we work We never think of watching oursolves. New companions are ;i help, too, and new ways of doing old things. |