The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . ned into a salesman,and whose manner was so little captivating that hewas nearly sent about his business, was accordinglytried at something else. He was placed in the count-ing-house, where his aptitude for figures soon showeditself, and in a few years he became, not only chiefcashier in the concern, but eminent as an accountantthroughout the country. CHANGING VOCATIONS The only remaining point in this connection to beconsidered is this : After choosin
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . ned into a salesman,and whose manner was so little captivating that hewas nearly sent about his business, was accordinglytried at something else. He was placed in the count-ing-house, where his aptitude for figures soon showeditself, and in a few years he became, not only chiefcashier in the concern, but eminent as an accountantthroughout the country. CHANGING VOCATIONS The only remaining point in this connection to beconsidered is this : After choosing a vocation in lifedeliberately and thoughtfully, it will be betters as ageneral rule, to stick to it than to change. Each manwill have to determine for himself whether his casefurnishes an exception to the rule. If it does, then itwill be best to change ; but he ought to be sure he isright before he goes ahead. A late writer on thispoint has forcibly said : In hours of despondency,or when smarting under some disappointment, a youngman is apt to fancy that in some other calling he wouldhave been more successful, It is so easy, while re-. OCCUPATION. 49 garding it at a distance, to look at its bright side only,shutting the eyes at what is ugly and disagreeable ; itis so easy to dream of the resolution and tenacity ofpurpose with which he would follow it, and to mountup in imagination to its most dazzling honors, andclutch them in defiance of every rival, that it is notstrange that men abandon their professions for othersfor which they are less fitted. But when we reflectthat the man remains the same, whatever his calling—that a mere change of his position can make no radi-cal change of his mind, either by adding to its strengthor diminishing its weakness—we shall conclude thatin many cases what he is in one calling, that he wouldbe, substantially, in any other, and that he will gainnothing by the exchange. OCCUPATION. It makes little difference what vocation a man fol-lows,
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