Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... stick! /F the applicant for a position can say truthfully, "I was with my last employers five years," he scores a strong point in his favor. It means that he has stability--which is often just as important as ability. We all have our grievances; we have to deal with eccentric bosses maybe, and conditions are not by any means what we should like them to be. But a man is not much of a man if he can not endure and overcome the hard things that fall to his lot in nearly every position. What of a new position? It may not be any better, and it may be a great deal worse. You know your present employer's hobbies, and you can get along with him; the other hard things of the position no longer terrorize you. You may be jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire if you make a change solely on account of a few difficult or disagreeable conditions. Of course, changes are sometimes necessary, but in most cases if the employee would simply grit his teeth and hold on, bending his mind and energies to seeing what could be accomplished in the Work he is doing, instead of thinking what he could do in some other job, he would in the end be better off. dreams and dreamers Let them call you a dreamer, if they will, but keep sacred in your heart the vision of the broader, nobler, more useful, more happy person you would like to be. Out of such dream-stuff comes slowly but surely the bigger self. Every great improvement, every forward step, was once some one's idea--some one's dream. A lesson from the war There is a good lesson in the press dispatches about the exploits of the German cruiser Emden. "Wireless messages were flying around her" says the Associated Press', "but she didn't talk--couldn't afford to. She worked." Talking is a fine art in its place but...