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Show Takeit . Frank H. FROM DAD Cheley How to Get the Job You Want and Keep It "Dad, we bad peacb of speaker t our assembly today, on the 'High Coat of LoaOn;.' Set na all to thinking that perbapi we aren't aa lodnatrloua aa we ought to be and that, 1 aa be said, 'killing time la suicide.' Bo. I'm looking for a Jobt But the trouble I bow'a a fellow going to get the job he wanta and then keep itr Mr Smlthboogh laughed outright, "Bob, I bope your streak of Industry has come to stay. I think myself It's about time you began be-gan to cash some of your spare time both from the standpoint of learning to work, which Is a very real accomplishment, accom-plishment, as well as from the standpoint stand-point of finnnciul return. College days are not so far away, and boy. they do take cash. Undoubtedly, one of the outstanding characteristics of successful men Is that somewhere, sometime, they learned to work. These days we heur s good deal about 'lucky breaks' and pull' and all the rest but let mo tell you one thing now; things In this world never Just happen. There Is always a reason for everything; so with successful accomplishment. ac-complishment. It Is not the result of lucky breaks; It Is not a tlilug of chance except In the movies. It comes to men only because they woik hard and Intelligently for it and along legitimate lines. "Now, as I understand it, you want to know what your prospects ore; how to get a truly desirable Job, and then how to keep It. Well,. as you know. I have some rather definite convictions along those very lines and I don't mind In the least sharing them with you not by way of advice, bow-ever, bow-ever, but by way of observations tl.en you go to it and try them out for yourself. However, let me say positively that It Is tremendously important im-portant that you do some thinking about Jobs in general before you set out to hunt one In particular. Bear In mind that It Is the potentiality of your Job which should make It attractive, attrac-tive, not necessarily the pay check. What are you learning while you are earning is the Important point Many men pay mighty dearly for their pay checks In what they learn In bad morals mor-als and wrong attitudes. "The second point I'd like to get fixed to your mind is that if possible there should be some definite connection connec-tion between the work you seek and the thing you are aiming at doing ul- tlmately. One would not be going to an engineering school to learn to become be-come a doctor nor working In a hospital hos-pital If he hoped to become a great mechanical engineer. There must be some consistency. "The third point Is this: Success and wealth are not one and the same thing. In past years we have bud a perfect deluge of success literature and It has left to entirely wrong Impression. Im-pression. Every normal man of course desires to make a good living that is entirely legitimate, but let's make a good life first useful, creative, In some realm and dedicated to the Improvement Im-provement of mankind. No other sort of a life Is legitimate. Get a definite purpose established. Bob, and then set out to make school and Job and reading read-ing and travel and friends and contacts con-tacts all help you accomplish that purpose. pur-pose. Apparently your work Is going to be some sort of human engineering votl n1nv npnnlft rnthpi than thlnira You seem to be domlnuted with altruistic al-truistic motives. So let's find a Job that will cast you with folks; meet-lug meet-lug people; serving people In some capacity rather than cleaning machinery machin-ery or keeping books or driving a car. One of the cardinal principles of finding find-ing the right Job and keeping it lies in finding work which Interests you. Having found a Job that fits into your scheme of things and that Interests and challenges you, then give It the very best you have. "Of course you will have to begin at the bottom. Don't expect to be made vice president of the concern In a week merely because you're good looking! look-ing! Determination, loyalty. Integrity nnd perseverance are the factors In holding a desirable Job after yon get one. The same stuff It takes to get a desirable Job It takes to hold one. "Never work for any man to whom you cannot be loyal, personally, and to the standards of his business as well To be efficient you must maintain main-tain always your own self-respect. "Give full hours and on extra good measure always. The minute you begin be-gin working by the, clock you Join that vast army of folks who have no future In anything' because they are 'getters" Instead of 'givers.' Besides, the most common type of dishonesty today is 'stealing time.' When you make another contract with yourself to do better than is necessary, then you will love your work and your work will prosper amazingly. "Now, Bob, ahout finding the Job that's up to you; a test of your own ingenuity and perseverance." "In other words. Dad, It's strictly np to me, eh all 1 get from you is some sound advice and your moral support?" "That's it boy, what more do you want, being a Smithhough?" (. 1930. "Western Newspaper Union.) |