Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 25, 30 Ianuali 1894 — Choosing a Calling. [ARTICLE]

Choosing a Calling.

Find out early what nature designed you to be—\rhether a Iawyer, docter, preaoher, tr.ider or ineehanie—and strive assiducusly to qualify yourself for tue discharge of the duties of your cailing, says William Mathews in IInrper'» Younj People. Be c«reful not to iuistake a hasty impulee, aahailow, temporary liking. for a real henl or deep love for a vocation;and, on the other, when you have persued any husiness for s«me yeara and found lhat it has raany di(liculties, trials and perplexities of whieh you I:ad not dreamed, do not hastiIy ahandon in for another—thus tbrowing away most of the knowledge and experienced acqnired—with the expectation of finding your pathway in the latter strewn with roses without any th< rns. A11 callings that are worth pursuing are alike in this—that not one of them is easy. Ouly after repeated failures following themost earnest and persistent etf >rts to succeed shou!d a change he made. Ilemtmher, too, that those kir.ds of husiness whieh pay hesl m the long run are the lowest in ihe beginning to yield a retnrn. Success in them is like the gruwlh of the aioe—for a long time siow aml imperceptibie. Kor years you j>erceive no cbange; then, all at onee, when the time eomea, tbere is a crisis, and it shoota up a «talk ten or fifleen feet bigh, hang with innomerab!e flowers. Stick, then, if possible, to your ehoeen callicg, Iest it be said cf you, as of a characler in Owen Mereditb’s ‘Lueile,’ Witb iimulne tinger he koock«d >t e«eh OM Of th e doonij) of bf«, bot abido«l »t nou; Hts ooane bv e«cb st«r tbst crustvd U w«s Aad «b«tever b« did be w*s «are to regret.