Work For YourselF

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4470, 2 October 1909, Page 3

Work For YourselF

“ Work for yourself. Don’t do your best to please some boss or foreman or superintendent or president. That’s a hireling trick. Do your best because you cannot afford to do less; because you owe it to your self-respect. Merit your own esteem. Dig for it. Do your own fault-finding with your work. You know it best. You can see the flaws quicker than anyone else. Don’t hide them. Talk about them if you must talk about your work. Let others discover the merits if they exist. Shut you ears to praise. Why should you be pleased that your work finds favour in the eyes of others? Who are you working for anyway, the other fellow or yourself? Stick to that point of view. That way freedom lies for no man who works for himself is independent. Make your employer dependent upon you. That will put you beyond the reach of dyspeptic caprice. Men who are afraid of their jobs are plenty; men who idealize tbeir work are mighty scarce, and all the arrogance in the world cannot change the man who works for himself into a trembling, cringing wretch,”